Others prefer to work their way through a piece of code for example from top to bottom, making opportunistic edits along the way, even if unrelated to the task. Not having to switch branches can be convenient in that case.

I’m 100% in the latter team. Near the end of a coding session, my `git diff` often shows three or four completely unrelated sets of changes. Some might call that a rather unproductive and annoying way to work. But I really love it that way. My brain just _craves_ to fix that typo or convert that tab to spaces right away, even when I’m supposed to fix a bug right now. I love dealing with those things right away so I get them out of my mind and don’t have to put them on a mental stack — even if that means a little more chaos later when it’s time to bin my edits into different commits.

Arguably, I _could_ switch branches for such edits. But frankly, I’m used to opportunistic editing, and sticking with that approach feels just super convenient.