Always start a new feature branch by always branching off origin/master using `git switch -c feature/branch origin/master` (previous git fetch required obviously).

Then after pushing it remotely, reviewal and approval, you can merge it directly to origin/master or, if your repo policy is avoiding merges, you can push the feature branch directly to origin/master using `git push feature/branch: master`

You don't ever really need to have a 'local master'