Note that you should only ever do this if you are absolutely sure that you are the only person pushing to that branch. I've worked with multiple orgs where the

Note that you should only ever do this if you are absolutely sure that you are the only person pushing to that branch. I've worked with multiple orgs where the convention for shared repos was to use branch names of the form <user>/<topic>, e.g. bowie/pipeline-v2. Such "user" branches should generally never be pushed to by anyone other than the dev they were named for. This has worked great to allow individuals to have visibility and/or backups of work-in-progress while avoiding lossage due to any branch cleanup prior to PR, etc.