Provided you're using qguards, mq allows you to ditch temporal connections between patches as well. An early version of this article left that out specifically

Provided you're using qguards, mq allows you to ditch temporal connections between patches as well. An early version of this article left that out specifically because I modified the default behavior of qnew on my system to create guards so that I can use them that way; I've updated the article to use qguards explicitly to achieve git-like temporal independence. EDIT: And today I learn that Hacker News doesn't support full Markdown.