Another advantage is
... that people like me wonder off for a couple of months and when we come back we have no idea of what has changed in the code. Usually not a problem if you aren't doing do your own, unofficial patches (like I tend to do).
I have it working for me now. But I know I did changes to the source. And right now I can't free time enough to put myself back into the source to fix the same fixes but on a newer version. And the fixes aren't neither in the src HEAD or my head anymore :-(
Diff is the true power of SCM.
/Niclas
