> You can just mess around and make it presentable later, which Git never really let you do nicely.

I'm surprised to read that, because that's how I've always used Git (and GitHub).

That's what I've understood to be good practice with Git, and it was liberating compared with what came before. One of the nicest things about Git is you can throw things in locally without worrying about how it looks, and make it presentable later.