Today we’ll go through a few of the very simple steps to rename Git branches which maybe present locally or on a remote server.

We will use the below command to rename branches:

git branch

Git Rename Local branch

To rename the currently active (the one on which you are currently on, and the one which HEAD ref is pointing to) local branch.

git branch -m <new_name_for_current_branch>

To rename another branch than your current one

git branch -m <old_branch_name> <new_branch_name>

Git Rename Remote branch

Now, if you have pushed the branch to remote server. You can do the following:

// Delete the old_branch_name branch from remote server, that you just renamed previously above in the post
git push origin :<old_branch_name>

// Now, push the new_branch_name to remote server
git push -u <remote> <new_branch_name>

And, that’s it!

Happy Git-ing! 🙂