> "Without branches, what happens is either broken trunk or giant commits, both often worse than the (real) complexity brought by branch." Or you do your devel

> "Without branches, what happens is either broken trunk or giant commits, both often worse than the (real) complexity brought by branch." Or you do your development in a way that doesn't break the build, and do it in several steps. For example, just build new code that can be specified to be used at runtime, then when it works just like the existing default code, switch it over (Effectively doing your own branch).