[injidup]

Decentralized version control only works if there is some way to find and access those distributed repositories. For many reasons and no matter the tech there is always a drift towards having a centralized registry so that the degrees of separation for individual actors is minimised. Be that a search engine or code forge or social network.

For *most* users, fully distributed and disconnected is a bug not a feature.

[jospeh554]

I don't miss the days when every project had it's own SVN server....

[ben0x539]

Say what you will about github-the-source-control-platform, github-the-unified-login-for-bugtrackers has been a huge success.