private branches

Should I change the way I do private branches in osmocom? I push a lot of private branches everywhere. I was asked in PM if I could cut down on branches a bit because it clutters other developers' view of the git history. My immediate response was: the other developer should simply not fetch my branches, or invoke tig or gitk in a way that shows only selected branches. But I reflected a bit and would like to ask generally how we want to do it. For osmocom it apparently is mostly me pushing private branches a lot. What if we all did that... In linux kernel development it seems to be more like each developer has her own public repository to make a mess in. So, i could make git clones of our main repositories in gitea and keep my private branches there. It seems like maybe i should do that out of common courtesy. But it also adds a bunch of overhead for me, keeping separate repositories synced. Having multiple remotes affects git commandline behavior. I used to have separate fetch/push URLs for a while, but it was annoying in some ways. I can change my ways, but only if i really have to. Any opinions? Are my branches annoying? Aspects: - backup of my ongoing work. (daily) - offering preliminary work to customers for manual build. (weekly) - seeing what others are up to. (rare but happens) - limiting branch clutter. (all the time for everyone) thanks! ~N