[alexeiz]

If you need a lot of local changes that you can't commit, then either your repository or your project (or both) are organized improperly. You must have committed files to git that should never be committed or you project doesn't allow you to adapt to the local environment without changing files committed to git.

For example, you may have hardcoded paths to tools and compilers, but in your local environment those tools have different paths. This is a problem with the project organization.

Another example, you may have something like VSCode settings file which somebody decided to commit to git, but those settings only make sense in his environment and not anybody else's environment.

Instead of searching for a workaround to these problems like virtual branches, you should push for fixing your project organization and you git repository.