Criar um branch remoto desde o início

Criar o novo branch:

  % git push origin origin:refs/heads/novobranch
  Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  From /var/spool/gitosis/repositories/brancher
   * [new branch]      unstable   -> origin/unstable
  To git@server.localdomain:brancher.git
   * [new branch]      origin/HEAD -> unstable

Então você pode ver que o branch foi criado.

  % git branch -a
    master
  * novobranch
    remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
    remotes/origin/master
    remotes/origin/novobranch

Agora siga o novo branch

  % git checkout -t -b novobranch origin/novobranch
  Branch novobranch set up to track remote branch novobranch from origin.
  Switched to a new branch 'novobranch'

Apagar um Branch Remoto

  % git branch -d -r origin/novobranch
  Deleted remote branch origin/novobranch (was 01e5ee4).