Introduction to Distributed Version Control Systems
With the introduction of Git and Mercurial five years ago, the popularity of distributed version control systems has skyrocketed. In January 2010, Microsoft began supporting Mercurial as a source control provider in their popular OSS project hosting site, CodePlex. Distributed version control systems offer many advantaged over their centralized counterparts such as Subversion and TFS, but only if used properly. In this session we'll introduce the two most popular DVCS platforms used today, Git and Mercurial, and how these systems enable scenarios and options that are difficult or impossible in traditional centralized systems.