Personal branch strategy

My personal fork does not duplicate anything in HDFGroup/hdf5 - features and bugfixes only!
HEAD points to this branch, named NOPE, which is essentially empty
I clone via the clone_here script included in this file:
- Clones my personal fork
- Adds HDFGroup/hdf5 as a remote named canonical
- Sets the canonical push URL to nonsense to avoid creating branches there
- Fetches canonical and checks out the develop branch
When starting a feature branch, I branch off of the development/feature branches in HDFGroup/hdf5
I try to prefix features and fixes with something useful, like "10" for merges to hdf5_1_10
Anything unprefixed was probably spun off of develop
Add a BRANCH.md file to anything likely to be long-lived
Delete branches after the changes have been pushed as far as they are needed

Why do I do this?

Syncing personal copies of HDFGroup/hdf5 is a waste of time
- Also, doing this poorly can generate ridiculous log entries showing every merge commit made in your personal copy
No wading through canonical HDF5 stuff to find my personal branches
Easily spin branches off of HDFGroup/hdf5 and move code around
No name clash - git checkout develop resolves to canonical/develop
Works like a personal extension to HDFGroup/hdf5