title: Are code freezes irrelevant with Git?
body: <p>In the context of Git's advantages (objective) over SVN, does the easier merging/branching features of Git make code freezing irrelevant when using Git (or equivalent)?  Did the concept of code freezing come about because merging later is so hard?</p>
  
  <p>I realize that this might be a subjective question but I really want to know if the phrase "code freeze" is antiquated or indicative of a project that isn't branching and merging easily.  If you could branch and merge automatically, would you ever code freeze?  I don't think you would because you could topic/feature branch locally and continue development knowing that merging would be easy.</p>