You only need a branch when you’re making changes that will take longer than one publish cycle to build. You need to deploy all the changes at the same time. To avoid your commits from your half-completed change getting published from trunk in the regular deployments, use a branch.
As soon as you have a feature than can be deployed, you must merge back to trunk.
You must also regularly merge from trunk to the branch so your branch doesn’t get out of sync.
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