Creating new branches and deleting them locally is an easy task with git, but when it comes to doing it for a remote repository, happily, it is very easy too.
Pushing a branch
If you have a new branch named mybranch on your local repository and you want to push it to a remote so other people can see it you can do:
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git push remotename mybranch
Most of the time you will probably want to push to the origin remote, so the command will be something like this:
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git push origin mybranch
Deleting a branch
Deleting a remote branch has a syntax that feels a little weird, but it remains an easy task. If you wanted to delete a branch named mybranch from a remote you would do this:
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git push remotename :mybranch
The way to see this command is like pushing empty to a remote. So you are telling git to go to remotename then find mybranch and push empty on it. This sounds weird, but what it really does is deleting the branch.
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