Once you know what you're doing you don't have to branch preemptively, because it's easy to branch in an ad-hoc manner. For instance, I often develop directly

Once you know what you're doing you don't have to branch preemptively, because it's easy to branch in an ad-hoc manner. For instance, I often develop directly on master, but if some change request comes in that needs urgent attention I simply `git branch tmp && git reset --hard origin/master`.