You could use bookmarks if it's just going to be a local branch that only you work on, and you don't want anyone else to see the branch name. I'd probably use

You could use bookmarks if it's just going to be a local branch that only you work on, and you don't want anyone else to see the branch name. I'd probably use a named branch. Yes, you have to use push -f the first time you push that branch to a remote repo, but I think of that as a "hey, do you really want other people to see this work-in-progress branch?" safeguard.