Although Drupal itself provides a central CVS repository for the
Drupal core code and contributed projects management, it is well
known that people use other tools for their own purposes. There
were several ocassions, when private Subversion repositories
were used to develop new core functionality (such as Forms API
or the multilanguage changes coming up in Drupal 6). Some people
also like using BZR to manage their own changes easily. A very
detailed introduction hit my web browser today though,
explaining how can you manage and even upgrade your Drupal
installation (including contributed modules) using Git, even
keeping local modifications. It is well-known that Git is a
distributed version control system that was created by Linus
Torvalds to help with the development of Linux kernel.
Distributed version control systems, such as Git, are contrasted
with centralized version control systems, such as Subversion.
Linux kernel development is characterized by hundreds of
contributors and several dozens of developm