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Grieving Gorilla answered on February 17, 2020 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 7/10

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Change a branch name in a Git repo

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If you're currently on the branch you want to rename:

git branch -m new_name 
Or else:

git branch -m old_name new_name 
You can check with:

git branch -a
As you can see, only the local name changed Now, to change the name also in the remote you must do:

git push origin :old_name
This removes the branch, then upload it with the new name:

git push origin new_name

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Contributed on Apr 19 2021

Grieving Gorilla

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git branch –m old-name new-name

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Contributed on Dec 27 2020

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// If you are in a different branch:
git branch -m old-name new-name

// If you are in the same branch:
git branch -m new-name

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Contributed on Apr 13 2022

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$ git branch -m OLD-BRANCH-NAME NEW-BRANCH-NAME
$ git fetch origin
$ git branch -u origin/NEW-BRANCH-NAME NEW-BRANCH-NAME

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Contributed on Mar 28 2021

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$ git checkout Branch-Name-You-Want-to-Change
$ git branch -m New-Branch-Name

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Contributed on Feb 17 2020

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git branch -m new-branch-name

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git branch -m <newname>

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Enchanting Echidna

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 $ git branch -m <new_name>

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Contributed on Jan 17 2021

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git branch -m <current_name> <new_name> # Change Name For Any Branch
git branch -m <new_name> # Change Name For Current Branch

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git push origin :old-name-of-branch-on-github
git branch -m old-name-of-branch-on-github new-name-for-branch-you-want
git push origin new-name-for-branch-you-want

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