Oh, I know the feeling :) You explore new techs, everybody tells you you're insane trying to do things that complicated, then a few years later they all do it a

Oh, I know the feeling :) You explore new techs, everybody tells you you're insane trying to do things that complicated, then a few years later they all do it and tell you you're a bad programmer if you want to explore any other idea and don't think of the current way as absolute. The ruby community is hit hard by this problem currently. That being said, there's something I love in DVCS in the way it allows me to work. I'll usually make my own things locally, do tons of branches and commits, to have "documented" checkpoints I can quickly throw in and revert to, then squash them into a single entity for publishing that keeps the project history easy to read. I'll probably won't do that if it meant publishing this info to everybody. But I won't say you're a bad developer if you don't do that :D