How are DVCS used in large teams?

Question

I\'ve recently started getting into Git on a personal project, and I can see how a DVCS might benefit us at work (which is a large enterprise software company, currently running

Answer 1

The fairly famous "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git" explains how it is used for Linux (about as big as team as I can think of)

If I recall correctly, it's use was likened to a Military chain-of-command - each module has a maintainer, who handle pull requests from developers, then there's a few "most trusted" people that deal with pulling data from the module maintainers into the official kernel.org git repository.

"Linux: Managing the Kernel Source With 'git'" also explains it, although again it's hardly a concise explanation..