[morganherlocker]

I recently switched to this approach and it works very well. No more "I want to push out this quick fix, but I have to wrap up this other thing first so I don't break the build".

With github it is especially nice. I push to a remote branch, which I can see when I go to the project page. When I click merge it shows whether or not the TravisCI build passed. If it looks good, then I click to auto-merge and it's all set. It is possible to even automate away that part as well and have the whole thing merge and deploy on push if the build passes, but I am not quite ready to take the plunge yet with that (too easy to botch a production release IMHO).