If your commits are clean and improperly ordered, this may be useful. A perforce implementation I used in the past supported checking into a development branch

If your commits are clean and improperly ordered, this may be useful. A perforce implementation I used in the past supported checking into a development branch and reviewing the set of CLNs that hadn’t been merged to mainline. I don’t necessarily agree with the workflow, but it was nice to have code complete, but not yet ready to ship things in everyone’s working branch.