It's a fairly common practice to prefix branches only intended for your own work with your initials and a slash, e.g. jd/my-work-in-progress. You can't guarant

It's a fairly common practice to prefix branches only intended for your own work with your initials and a slash, e.g. jd/my-work-in-progress. You can't guarantee that nobody else will work off it, but it's their own fault if they do.