Maintaining orphaned code has a cost. Keeping a change you've made to a function (and its callers) that's no longer needed obscures both the history and probabl

Maintaining orphaned code has a cost. Keeping a change you've made to a function (and its callers) that's no longer needed obscures both the history and probably what it does. Not saying trunk-based is wrong, but to say abandoning a feature is as cheap as in branch-based development fails to account for everything.