If you work on a branch you can push them to your remote repo anyway. Good for backups or if you move between hosts for any reason (I do this all the time as I

If you work on a branch you can push them to your remote repo anyway. Good for backups or if you move between hosts for any reason (I do this all the time as I prefer static workstations for focus and work/life balance.) Branches rightly became a bit of a dirty word over the last decade. In a fast moving collaborative codebase the pattern you really want to avoid is using a long running feature branch — one that remains uncommitted to trunk for ever more uncomfortable periods of time. Branches themselves — the VCS technology part — are incredibly useful when used fluently.