Auto create 3 branches when a repository is created in Azure DevOps Git

Thanks. I looked at that approach and did actually implement it but it seemed like branches I had in my template repo, did not actually get created in the new repo unless I first created them in the template repo during the process. so my process in a pipeline looks like this now but it works. not sure I needed the template repo for this however

az repos create --name a.test --organization https://dev.azure.com/org/ --project Onlife

git clone -q https://$(PAT)@dev.azure.com/org/project/_git/repo.template
cd repo.template
git config --global user.email "email address removed for privacy reasons"

git config --global user.name "lance_lyons"
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git checkout -b release
git checkout -b development
git checkout -b hotfix
git add -A
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git commit -am "Copied from project repo.template"
git remote rename origin repo.template
git remote add origin https://$(PAT)@dev.azure.com/org/project/_git/a.test
git push -u origin main
git push -u origin --all