My job in the past was to evaluate source control systems for different organizations and what made the most sense. While I think Git and Mercurial are great for open source pieces, I'd pretty much never recommend Git inside of a large organization just yet. Perhaps never given how much visibility and control most companies want on their internal development flow. Checking in code to local repositories on any large scale isn't something most companies are big fans of.
Overall, Perforce is probably my most recommended for companies, though it has its downsides. Subversion with their improvements to branching should be getting more props these days, though. ClearCase is preferred by a lot of process-focused software companies (government contractors, etc).
What I think traditional centralized systems need is a better story for local repos or at least private branches. It needs to feel natural and built-in so that smaller pieces of work can be handled quickly without necessarily shipping them to team branches (or main). It's all doable now but the emphasis and infrastructure should encourage incremental changes in isolation which Git and Mercurial do a great job of. This feature isn't one major organizations need as an essential, but developers sure know the importance of it.
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My job in the past was to evaluate source control systems for different organizations and what made the most sense. While I think Git and Mercurial are great for open source pieces, I'd pretty much never recommend Git inside of a large organization just yet. Perhaps never given how much visibility and control most companies want on their internal development flow. Checking in code to local repositories on any large scale isn't something most companies are big fans of.
Overall, Perforce is probably my most recommended for companies, though it has its downsides. Subversion with their improvements to branching should be getting more props these days, though. ClearCase is preferred by a lot of process-focused software companies (government contractors, etc).
What I think traditional centralized systems need is a better story for local repos or at least private branches. It needs to feel natural and built-in so that smaller pieces of work can be handled quickly without necessarily shipping them to team branches (or main). It's all doable now but the emphasis and infrastructure should encourage incremental changes in isolation which Git and Mercurial do a great job of. This feature isn't one major organizations need as an essential, but developers sure know the importance of it.