branching for stable milestone - create a new branch from master in both my fork and the origin

git-new-branch.sh

#!/bin/bash

usage ()
{
	echo "Usage: $0 newbranchname"
	echo "Example: $0 jbosstools-4.1.0.Alpha1"
	exit 1;
}

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
	usage;
fi

gituser=${GITUSER}

# read commandline args
while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do
	case $1 in
		*) branch="$1";;
	esac
	shift 1
done

if [[ ! $gituser ]]; then
	echo "gituser is not set!"; exit 1
fi
if [[ ! $branch ]]; then 
	echo "branch is not set!"; exit 1
fi

if [[ $(git branch -a | grep $branch) ]]; then
	echo "Branch $branch already exists."
else
	echo "Creating new branch $branch ..."
	git stash

	# make us up to date
	git checkout master
	git pull nickboldt
	git pull nickboldt master
	git pull origin
	git pull origin master
	 
	# create new branch, check it out, and push it to the server
	git branch ${branch}
	git checkout ${branch}
	git push origin ${branch}
	git push ${GITUSER} ${branch}

	git stash pop
fi

# hub browse
projectName=`pwd`;projectName=${projectName##*/}
firefox https://github.com/jbosstools/${projectName}/tree/${branch}