As somebody who will occasionally have a spurt of 2 weeks hard work on a side project in the evenings, before putting it back down for 3 months, I think branche

As somebody who will occasionally have a spurt of 2 weeks hard work on a side project in the evenings, before putting it back down for 3 months, I think branches and tests are well worth it. As the saying goes, there's nothing worse than reading code you wrote a year ago. Having every commit in a branch pass all tests is a little overkill, but gating merges to master/main on tests passing and then having branches squash before merging seems like a happy middle ground. At least that way every commit in master/main has passed tests.