I do that for my personal projects.

Doing that on projects where I collaborate I would equate to pissing in public.

That is also why pull requests are such a great idea in general, because GIT allows one to piss in his own garden as much as they want.

Even if I could piss in my own branch I never do so when working on a project with other people.

I don't piss around my home obviously in case someone didn't get the metaphor.