I've always thought the branch/no branch argument rested on a false dichotomy. How is an uncommitted patch in any way distinguishable from a branch? One could e

I've always thought the branch/no branch argument rested on a false dichotomy. How is an uncommitted patch in any way distinguishable from a branch? One could easily envision a case where it was easier to merge a branch than to merge a patch where two programmers are simultaneously working on the same HEAD code. Any working copy of the code is in effect a branch.