What's different? I don't have to trust committers. People can commit to the repository without having their changes affect my work until I want them to. It's a

What's different? I don't have to trust committers. People can commit to the repository without having their changes affect my work until I want them to. It's a pull model, instead of a push model, when you use it the way it was intended. The flexibility, of course, allows you to use a distributed version system exactly the way you would with a centralized one.