[RichardCA]

Maybe you want to push your work to a remote server as a way to back it up.

Maybe you want to share your work with others even though it's still in a rough state.

Maybe you have automated tests in your CI process and you want to try those tests on your side-branch.

The point is you might want to wrap workflow around your stuff, even if it's experimental and broken.

Git doesn't make these choices for you. You get to make them.