Where I work, you prefix the name of your branch with your username, like "acchow/new-feature". This tells other people "do not touch this branch because its hi

Where I work, you prefix the name of your branch with your username, like "acchow/new-feature". This tells other people "do not touch this branch because its history will be changed by acchow". Alternatively, if you use github, you can set access controls on forks to read-only and send pull requests from your fork to the main repo.