How to change git branch name (local and remote)
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How to change git branch name (local and remote)

Publish Date: Oct 27 '21
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It's possible that we will do something wrong, well, we're all just human, we always do something wrong (or may be right).

Git branch are something that I always define it in wrong pattern 🤣.

Here how to fix it.

  1. you need to change branch name in local first
$ git branch -m old-branch-name new-branch-name
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What it does? it dose change local branch name from old-branch-name to new-branch-name. You can check with git log you will found that the old-branch-name are gone!

  1. change branch name in remote

This part are required when the old-branch-name are in remote. What you need to do is just push the new-branch-name into remote then remove the old-branch-name in remote that's it.

$ git push origin -u new-branch-name
$ git push origin -d old-branch-name
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Now, the old-branch-name are gone both local and remote.

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