DVCS vs. Subversion brittleness (was Re: Moving to D)

[Walter Bright]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> A more serious issue that I learned (or rather forgotten about before 
> and remembered now) is the whole DVCSes keep the whole repository 
> history locally aspect, which has important ramifications. If the 
> repository is big, although disk space may not be much of an issue,

I still find myself worrying about disk usage, despite being able to get a 2T 
drive these days for under a hundred bucks. Old patterns of thought die hard.