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Non-technical management will probably not care about these arguments.
– jcm
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 11:53
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The problem with bringing up specific points of comparison is that you have to know the alternatives extremely well, or you will be ripped apart. In the case of this response, the only point that's valid is the "distributed vs centralized" one, and even then you have to be prepared for "you mean every possibly-disgruntled employee has our entire source repository on their laptop?!?"
– kdgregory
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 11:54
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@kdgregory Every disgruntled employee also has several zip files and personal repositories of the code because ClearCase is too slow and cumbersome to work in 100% of the time. :-)
– Jace Browning
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 12:17
@kdgregory and they will pounce on the "you can checkin without it going to the server, what if your PC crashes, you'll lose all your checkins. Where's the backups? how do we control a single stream of the sources to build each release from?"
– gbjbaanb
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 14:20

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