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Is a “model” branch a common practice?

I just thought it could be a good thing to have a dedicated version control branch for all database schema changes and I wanted to know if anyone else is doing the same and what have the results been.

Why not commit unresolved changes?

In a traditional VCS, I can understand why you would not commit unresolved files because you could break the build. However, I don’t understand why you shouldn’t commit unresolved files in a DVCS (some of them will actually prevent you from committing the files).

Is Perforce as good at merging as DVCSs?

I’ve heard that Perforce is very good at merging, I’m guessing this has to do with that it tracks changes in the form of changelists where you can add differences across several files in a single blow. I think this implies Perforce gathers more metadata and therefore has more information to do smarter merging (at least smarter than Subversion, being Perforce centralized).

Why can Perforce be a better version control system? [closed]

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Shorter release cycle with DVCS

Does the choice of using a DVCS over a CVCS actually make for shorter release cycles? If so, what makes software release cycles shorter and what are the arguments for this?