My method is slightly different. For pet projects, I work on main until I deploy something, and I push to GH when it's building/running at the end of a session.

My method is slightly different. For pet projects, I work on main until I deploy something, and I push to GH when it's building/running at the end of a session. I do git commit initially, and then "amend" as I go with intellij/goland's one click UI. I try to write one line commit messages, mostly for posterity. Ive had some nice moments looking back on the "OMG it works" projects