[kop316]

That has been my pattern for some hobby projects, however it quickly becomes a mess to keep track of what you have done over a period of time (I have the same bad habit, I commit things so I can freexe my code in case I mess something up).

My hobby project has been to extend a program with a new plugin, but then along the way I found bugs in the core code, and I wanted to upstream the fixes (and the plugin). I am very glad I knew what the fixes where, becasue I more or less had to rebase to the original code in order to untangle the mess of commits I made.

I have also found other folks wanting to use my code, so it also made it much more helpful if ourside folks can see how I altered the original program.