using git with github is still a DVCS. You can branch, commit, merge, whatever without access to the central repository. None of that was possible with the clas

using git with github is still a DVCS. You can branch, commit, merge, whatever without access to the central repository. None of that was possible with the classic VCS - if the central server went down, you were stuck with your current working copy, or copying a colleague's state on removable media