If you think about how DVCS works, it's all blobby-things connected together with tree-ish things. Keeping all your blobby-things in one place lets you connect

If you think about how DVCS works, it's all blobby-things connected together with tree-ish things. Keeping all your blobby-things in one place lets you connect them more flexibly with tree-ish things and enforce stricter consistency (in the consistency model sense)