More Projects Move to Distributed Version Control

When I wrote here recently about distributed version control systems, I sensed some needless skepticism in the comments. So I was pleased to see Filemon write about DVCS in My new personal VCS — Git. NetBeans is another project moving to a DVCS. You heard right. The whole NetBeans codebase will be in Mercurial. There's also a plugin in the works to let you use Mercurial repositories from NetBeans.

It looks like Sun has chosen distributed version control for sharing source code across its open-source projects. JDK 7 is already on Mercurial, and NetBeans is the next project making the move.