#Git rename branch push how to#
If you want to learn about how to rename a remote branch too, I wrote an article on it as well. Even if it’s not the current branch, you’ve also learned about the command to use in that case. This article showed you how you can rename a local Git branch, especially if it’s the current branch. To confirm that, you can run git branch again:
Push the new branch to create a new remote branch: git push originIf the branch exists on the remote Git server, continue to the next steps.
You can see the name of the branch has been successfully changed to bug fixes. Rename the local branch: git branch -mm in this situation is a flag that stands for move. Remember I pointed out that I want to rename the fix bug branch to bug-fixes, so I’ll run git branch -m bug-fixes. To rename the branch, you need to run the command git branch -m new-name. You can see that git bash shows me the branch I’m currently in now, which is fix bug. In this case, I want to change the fix-bug branch to bug-fixes. You can do that by running git checkout branch-name. Next, make sure you are in the branch you want to change the name of. The first thing you need to do is to run git branch so you can see the branches you have in place: Proceed to the next section of this article to see how you can rename the current branch in Git.
To rename a branch you are not currently working in, you usually run the command git branch -m old-name new-name.įor example, I’m currently on the main branch and I was able to rename kolade-works to kolade-codes. In this article, I will show you how to rename the branch you’re working with without switching to another branch. Since you have those branches in place, you might want to rename any of them if you find a typo, for example, or change the code's purpose. If you are using Git for version control, it’s likely you’ve created branches for various reasons.
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