[sytse]

If it is pushed other people can cherry-pick, CI generates results and other people might push commits on the same branch (when using the same repo). We think pushing indicates you want to work in public. We even made a Work In Progress (WIP) function for it in GitLab http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/wip_merge_requests.html

[Mithaldu]

It's a social question. To be honest, for the vast majority of people i work with (and i've worked with a few: https://github.com/wchristian?tab=repositories ) it would be considered very strange to see feature branches as public and stone-written history. There's a common understanding that feature branches are feature branches because the creator wishes to avoid writing things in stone.

That said, if a team decides on that kind of convention, marking things as WIP is a neat feature. I've seen other people do that simply by creating feature branches as "<username>/feature_branch".