Git's definitely an improvement over Subversion (CVS, etc...). Without the commit history there's a lot you couldn't do (e.g. bisect stuff), but things would s

Git's definitely an improvement over Subversion (CVS, etc...). Without the commit history there's a lot you couldn't do (e.g. bisect stuff), but things would still be workable. Distributed models are almost always more robust than centralized ones though. As I understand it, the main benefits are still risks though (e.g. central directory). The code itself isn't really at risk, especially with signed commits.