How to Rename Git Local and Remote Branches
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Sometimes, you will need to rename a local or remote branch in Git, for one reason or another.
In this post, we're going to learn how you can rename a local or remote branch in Git.
Renaming local branches
Renaming a local branch is easy. Simply use the git branch
command and pass it the -m
flag.
BASHgit branch -m <old-branch-name> <new-branch-name>
This will rename the local branch <old-branch-name>
to <new-branch-name>
locally.
Now delete the old branch remotely:
BASHgit push origin --delete <old-branch-name>
Pushing new branch to remote
Now that you've deleted the old branch from the remote, you can push your newly-renamed branch to remote.
This is how you can push a new branch to remote:
BASHgit push origin <new-branch-name>
Now, simply reset the upstream branch to the new remote branch:
BASHgit push origin -u <new-branch-name>
That's it, you should have successfully renamed your branch locally, then reflected the updates on remote.
Conclusion
In this post, we learned how to rename your branch locally, then push these changes to remote.
Hopefully, you've found this useful.
Happy coding!
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