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Where could Distributed Version Control Systems currently be in Gartner's hype cycle?

Edit: Given the recent downvoting (+8/-6 at this point) it was made clear to me that Gartner's lifecycle is a biased metric from a programmer's perspective. This is something that is part of a paper I'm going to present to management, and management…
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In centralized version control, is it always good to update often?

Assuming that: Your team is using centralized version control. You are working on a larger feature which will take several days to complete, and you won't be able to commit before that because it would break the build. Your team members commit…
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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? Related to pull request? Does easier submission of patches play a role…
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Integrating different branches from external sources into a single Mercurial repository

Edit: Making this even clearer as the bounty is about to expire: is there a way of importing history (pulling from different SCM) directly into a specific branch with Mercurial? I'm currently working in a company using Perforce and am making way…
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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. Say that you are working with: Schema…
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Are any companies moving from DVCSs to CVCSs?

Are there any actual business cases that have made any company move from a DVCS to a CVCS (regardless of whether they were on a CVCS originally)?. Other than having a closed mind and rejecting the paradigm shift altogether (for the particular case…
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Can DVCSs enforce a specific workflow?

So, I have this little debate at work where some of my colleagues (which are actually in charge of administrating our Perforce instance) say that workflows are strictly a process thing, and that the tools that we use (in this case, the version…
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Will the customer benefit from a DVCS in any way?

Some of us can say a Distributed Version Control System (e.g. Mercurial, git) will have a positive impact on developers only out of the experience of using one (under the right conditions: higher productivity, higher code-base stability, etc.), but,…
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