From painful experience, I can say that leaving a branch that lasts longer than a day only on your machine is begging to lose work. Unless your machine is auto

From painful experience, I can say that leaving a branch that lasts longer than a day only on your machine is begging to lose work. Unless your machine is automatically backed up every hour, in which case ignore me. That has not been the case in most of my jobs, but pushing my WIP branch to a remote every hour or two achieves that goal in practice (as long as I don't have anything important that's not in a repo).