Hello @EvertonSchneider !
It is nice to see the community is excited about this project as I am 
The mesh operations will definitely help with the cloth tearing functionality but this is currently out of scope as I have mentioned in my project proposal. Currently, these mesh operations are for adding adaptive remeshing support which will help with getting higher quality simulations without the expense of simulating a very dense mesh and having to manually tweak the mesh topology to prevent that stair stepping effect and other artifacts.
Yes, the branch should be compile but as of now, it is purely in the development stage so no features to test. Hopefully within the next 2-3 weeks, you should have something fun to test.
Let further discussion on this topic happen on the feedback/discussion thread.