I think I'm one of the few developers who use the "Distributed" bit of DVCS. I do in fact often find myself on a slow boat down the Amazon with laptop in tow f

I think I'm one of the few developers who use the "Distributed" bit of DVCS. I do in fact often find myself on a slow boat down the Amazon with laptop in tow for weeks on end, so being able to make disconnected, versioned changes and have them sync back to the mothership when I do get a whiff of wifi is a big step forward. It's the branching and merging bit that I could do without. Say what you will about Subversion, but using it is like having a big red "Save" button on you codebase. Click commit and off your changes go to the repository and you can once again safely have your laptop stolen without losing work. I have a few projects still on SVN and it's really a breath of fresh air going back to them after a few months of feature branches, pull requests, and merges.