[lomnakkus]

I do basically what the parent suggested for all my git work, i.e. it's my workflow. Call your branches wip-* to signal that you'll be using it haphazardly, don't bother doing "clean" commits while working (just commit stuff whenever you feel like it or when you might want to backtrack an experimental change, use the message "wip" or whatever). Push to branch whenever you want a "backup", e.g. when moving to a different machine.

When done, clean up the history[1], push to a different "real" branch for review. Delete wip-* branch.

Unless people have actively checked out your branch locally they shouldn't have any "mess" on their end. (They'll have a remote branch listed by "git branch -r", but all of those can be cleaned up periodically with a "git prune ...".)

I haven't heard any complaints so far. (I've been doing it this way for 4+ years, I think.)

[1] I usually find that it's easier to split/clean up after the feature is almost completely done and ready for review. When I'm "in the zone" I don't want to have to suddenly switch to the "cleaning up history" mode.