Heh. I suspect that it might seem fine at first. Then some time passes and people end up wanting more fine-grained control over their local changes that upstrea

Heh. I suspect that it might seem fine at first. Then some time passes and people end up wanting more fine-grained control over their local changes that upstream hasn’t accepted yet. Then they either start organizing branches on the upstream into their own namespaces (best case) or they start using (local) patch management systems on top of the centralized VCS (a worse case).