renaming a git branch

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Last week, I ran into a situation where I needed to rename a git branch which I had already pushed. Thanks to the internet, I was able to figure out exactly how to get this done.

In this note, I would be documenting what was done, and how you (future me 😀) can get it done too.

tl;dr

Just need the commands to run?

Fine, here…

shell

# update local
git checkout <old_branch_name> && git branch -m <new_branch_name>
# update remote
git push origin -u <new_branch_name> && git push origin -d <old_branch_name>

With the straight to the point answer provided, let’s go into some detail.

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renaming a git branch

tl;dr