Mass-create branches in multiple Git repos and push them remote

create_branches.sh

#!/bin/sh

PROJECTS="Project_1 Project_2 Project_3"
BRANCH="$1"

if [[ -z "$BRANCH" ]]; then
	echo "Usage $0 BRANCH_NAME"
	exit -1
fi

for PROJECT in $PROJECTS
do
    echo "Creating $PROJECT branch $BRANCH"
    CURRENT_DIR=$PWD
    cd $PROJECT

	git checkout -b "$BRANCH"
	git config "branch.$BRANCH.remote" origin
	git config "branch.$BRANCH.merge" "refs/heads/$BRANCH"
	git push origin "$BRANCH"
	SUCCESS=$?

	if [[ $SUCCESS -ne 0 ]]; then
    	echo "** ERROR CREATING BRANCH $BRANCH FOR REPO $PROJECT **"
    	exit $SUCCESS
    fi

	cd $CURRENT_DIR
done