Quickly push a new branch upstream when checking out a new branch with this shell function and alias

git-create-branch.sh

# Add this to your shell profile (e.g. .zshrc or .bashrc)

publishBranch() {
  git checkout -b $1
  git push -u origin $1
}

alias gcb=publishBranch

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# Usage
# > gcb my-new-branch
# Branch 'my-new-branch' set up to track local branch 'master' by rebasing.
# Switched to a new branch 'my-new-branchh'
# Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
# remote:
# remote: Create a pull request for 'my-new-branch' on GitHub by visiting:
# remote:      https://github.com/YOURORG/SOMEREPO/pull/new/my-new-branch
# remote:
# To github.com:YOURORG/SOMEREPO.git
# * [new branch]      my-new-branch -> my-new-branch
# Branch 'my-new-branch' set up to track remote branch 'my-new-branch' from 'origin' by rebasing.
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