There may be better ways. “Recipe” implies process given to me, and it gets the job done. I have better things to do (i.e. projects) than play with SCM. Azeroth isn’t going to save itself…
1. Create new branch locally
git branch <new branch name> <old branch name>
2. Push new branch to server
git push origin <new branch name>
3. Make sure changes to new local branch go to remote version (unsure if this step is necessary, as I’ve never tested not doing it)
git branch -D <new branch name>
4. Check out the new branch again
git checkout -b <new branch name> –track origin/<new branch name>
