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Merges are definitely not the point of dvcs... To avoid writing a treatise, I’ll just point to the advantages of distributed over centralized on Wikipedia, whi

Merges are definitely not the point of dvcs... To avoid writing a treatise, I’ll just point to the advantages of distributed over centralized on Wikipedia, which is a list of stuff completely unrelated to merges. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control

lmm 6y ago
"Allows various development models to be used" and "much easier to create a project fork" very much depend on merges. If you're rebasing you're necessarily following a model with a single central branch, so your model would work in a centralised system as well.