DVCS's solve a hard problem where there isn't a single obvious way of thinking about it. There's no easy solution to managing multiple concurrent streams of de

DVCS's solve a hard problem where there isn't a single obvious way of thinking about it. There's no easy solution to managing multiple concurrent streams of development. And everyone has their own different ideas about what's the best way to solve it. I've used tools that are "simpler" than git: subversion for one. My experience has been that this simply means that they don't handle more difficult version control scenarios that do occur in practice. Subversion, in particular, just has a tendency to throw up it's hands and leave you to manually merge changes in any non-trivial merge scenarios.