The quoted text doesn't make it clear at what point they think it's OK to see this newly broken code. For example, do they mean in the shared development branch

The quoted text doesn't make it clear at what point they think it's OK to see this newly broken code. For example, do they mean in the shared development branch? Certainly you wouldn't want to push it to production, right? Personally, I break things in my local branches but make sure everything that leaves my machine is working. Git makes it pretty simple to create "save points" when refactoring and then smash everything back together into a clean, concise commit log.