A few useful commands for working with branches

.gitconfig

# git branch-name: prints the name of the branch in a safe/scriptable/non-porcelain way
# git publish: publishes the current branch on the remote "origin", using the same name as the current branch
# git unpublish: deletes the remote branch with the same name as the current one (potentially destructive)
# git recreate: given a branch name, recreates the branch with that name from the latest master. Deletes both the local and remote copy of the branch first. Very destructive, use with caution

branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
publish     = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"
unpublish   = "!git push origin :$(git branch-name)"
recreate    = "!f() { [[ -n $@ ]] && git checkout \"$@\" && git unpublish && git checkout master && git branch -D \"$@\" && git checkout -b \"$@\" && git publish; }; f"