From this blog post describing the git-flow model, it seems that feature branches have to remain local to the user working on them and are actually deleted right before pushing to origin.
This kind of makes sense, but what if other people want to checkout my feature branch to help me out for example? Should I push my branch only then? Should I not? If so why?
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Under the original gitflow specification, there is no requirement that features be local only, only that they SHOULD NOT be pushed to origin:
Feature branches typically exist in developer repos only, not in origin.
However, it’s not a hard requirement. The gitflow API supports publishing and tracking features on origin:
git flow feature publish <name>Start sharing feature
<name>on$ORIGINgit flow feature track <name>Start tracking feature
<name>that is shared on$ORIGIN
It was not part of the original specification, but was silently added in gitflow 0.2 when it was refactored to be a git subcommand.