How to Rename a Branch with Git

Renaming a local branch is easy by using git branch command option -m. For the remote branch, we can create a new remote branch by pushing the renamed branch and then deleting the old branch.

Here are the steps.

(1) checkout

git checkout old-branch-name

(2) rename

git branch -m new-branch-name

(3) push the new branch

git push origin -u new-branch-name

(4) delete the old one

git push origin --delete old-branch-name
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