> I have wanted to have the full history while offline a grand total of maybe about six times. I have probably run git init in a directory at least once a mont

> I have wanted to have the full history while offline a grand total of maybe about six times. I have probably run git init in a directory at least once a month to have full tracking capability without the expense of setting up a "server". It says something that the author assumes that a DVCS can only exists if it has a central server and that your local copy is nothing but the "offline" copy. I have also run projects where the github repo was just a copy and the version on my box was the official repo. I also run expensive (cpu/time) scripts that walk over the projects history, something the server admin would never let me do. And then we get into the realm of very expensive hooks that run on my desktop and not on the "server". And lastly even in an always connected world if your server is in Australia you can't change the speed of light, hitting it from Germany will always be a long "slow" trip. Having the full repository at your disposal without being tied to some other authoritative repository provides a lot of flexibility and enables capabilities that are just not possible otherwise. Some features could easily be included in non-dvcs systems (such as local hooks), but I do not know if we would have seen their success without dvcs systems providing the means for exploration.