Decentralized source control allows more frequent committing
Published Apr 24 2006 by Phil Dawes
One benefit of using the decentralized 'every programmer has their own branch' approach to source control that I hadn't thought of until I tried it: You can commit more frequently.
This is because you can commit without impacting others. With CVS and subversion I usually keep a little commit text file where I pile up the commitlog notes until I have a sourcecode tree stable enough to commit (i.e. all unit tests succeeding). With BazaarNG I just commit away as much as I want, and then rsync to the public branch when I'm done.
N.B. I'm frequently away from a net connection (travelling on trains and buses), and so the times I get to commit aren't always the times when my source tree is stable enough to.
