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I'm currently working around this by loading the root group & the branch group with two separate calls and then merging the resulting datasets. It's ugly b/c I have to manually associate the 'phony_dim_x' dimensions from one group with the other.

Maybe I can find the time during quarantine to make an attempt at resolving #1092, which I think would facilitate resolving this issue as well.

Another option would be to allow the group kwarg to be a tuple of group names, and load_dataset could yield a (flat) Dataset including both the root and the branch variables. 

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