Exactly. Keep remote history clean, keep local history dirty. Commit broken code, commit experimental features, do whatever it takes for you to write your code.

Squash, rebase interactively, rearrange, amend, merge, --no-ff before you push so other can read only a good, maintainable code served in meaningful and ordered commits.

Also rebase onto origin master often so you won't get lost in milion pages long diffs and conflicts.