Rename Git Branch

You are working on a project and the team has defined a naming convention for git branches. You have created a branch and pushed all your changes then realized that your branch name has Uh o in it. You have to rename the branch. Git made it very easy for you to rename the branch using -m command. Follow these steps_

Checkout the branch.

 
git checkout Old_BranchName

Rename the local branch.

 
git branch -m New_BranchName

Push the new local branch and reset the upstream branch.

 
git push origin -u New_BranchName

Safely delete the old remote branch.

 
git push origin --delete Old_BranchName

Or

 
git push origin :Old_BranchName

That’s it, renaming is done for local and remote Git branch.

You can also rename the branch from another branch using these commands.

 
git branch -m Old_BranchName New_BranchName

 
git push origin :Old_BranchName

 
git push origin -u New_BranchName

Happy coding!