Yup, that's usually what I prefer to do myself anyway. Working on teams we usually commit to '$username/$feature' branches though, to keep it reasonably clean

Yup, that's usually what I prefer to do myself anyway. Working on teams we usually commit to '$username/$feature' branches though, to keep it reasonably clean and not potentially pollute others' namespaces. We're also not allowed to merge in our own PRs (usually, unless it's tiny) to force code reviews, which generally works out quite nicely.