Your CI system can test those commits in isolation. I frequently push supposed-to-be-stable commits like that alone to my working branch on Github, so Travis CI

Your CI system can test those commits in isolation. I frequently push supposed-to-be-stable commits like that alone to my working branch on Github, so Travis CI can tell me if I have a problem. Though I'm quite picky about commits, that each merge point into mainline (master) is tested is what is most important to me. Github PRs with Travis CI for instance enforce that pretty OK. If I don't bother to do a PR, and the changes as a linear set upon master, I like to use git merge --no-ff master to force a merge commit.