This is the way. Branches are structurally cheap in git for a reason - to make it easy to do this! The only minor pain is that then I have to remember to clean

This is the way. Branches are structurally cheap in git for a reason - to make it easy to do this! The only minor pain is that then I have to remember to clean up the unused branches for paths that didn't pan out but that isn't so bad anyways and helps me make sense of/remind me of what didn't work as I was trying to solve something.