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

Here is one example (by no mean a "universal" one)

We have central VCS (ClearCase or SubVersion, depending on the different projects), and we are using them for "official" developments efforts (dev, patches, fixes), where the number of branches is limited and well-identified.

However, for refactoring developments involving a lot of intermediate state, where nothing works, and where many developers needs to have their own activity-based branch or branches, some Git repositories are set up between those developers, in a P2P way.
Once the work achieve some kind of 0.1 stability, and merges are reduced, its is re-imported in the VCS, where the work can go on in an "orderly" central fashion.

Since Git on Windows works well (MSysGit), we manage to have small initial developments quickly done on the side that way.

We are still evaluating Git for a full-scale project development though.