Workflows and Distributed Version Control

Abstract: This bachelor thesis focuses on distributed version control systems and workflows used when working with such systems. The thesis will investigate benefits and disadvantages in using distributed version control in software development using a literature review of the available articles on the subject as well as a post-mortem analysis (with questionnaires and data collected from the build environment) of a student run software engineering project. We find that the migration costs are high, but that the advantages may outweigh its drawbacks for some. We conclude that many projects would benefit from migrating, but in particular, that new projects would not only benefit, but also not have high migration costs.