About Branch Inheritance
Branching is one of the core Plastic SCM capabilities, and Branch Inheritance Technology is the key to maximize team productivity, easing integrations, and providing full traceability of the development. New visualizations provide the level of detail needed by the every team member, from a global view of the project status offered by the branch explorer, to the single item detail displayed on the 3D version tree.
To perform really powerful branching, a good merging mechanism is required, and merge tracking is the key of the process. Each time a merge is done, a link is created between the involved revisions. The link is not only important to illustrate the process (to be displayed on a version tree), but used internally by Plastic SCM to take the number of manual merge conflicts to the minimum. The overall result is a significant reduction of the time that developers spend on integrations.
Find more details on the advantages of Branch Inheritance technology for parallel development on the whitepaper "Parallel development with Plastic SCM"
