A few week back, I commented some concerns about git causing silos. I think this is a really good post by chris from github, illustrating the advantages of fully distributed development:
It may seem strange, and perhaps even like a lot of work. “Why should I have to check to see which is the most current? In the old model, there’s always a canonical repository.”
In the old model, action-web-service wouldn’t have made it past 1.2.6. Welcome to distributed version control.