Change the branch name locally
There is 2 scenarios here:
Scenario 1: If you are on the branch
If you are on the branch which you want to change the name then you can use this
git branch -m new-name-of-branch
command.
Scenario 2: If you are on another branch
If you are on another branch but want to change the name of a specific branch then you can use this
git branch -m old-name-of-branch new-name-of-branch
command.
Change the branch name remotely
After changing the name of the branch locally in git, now you may want to get the same name reflected remotely like in GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc, Git hosting services.
To do that first, you need to delete the old branch in remote, you can do this with this command,
🚀 NOTE: BEFORE DELETING ANY REMOTE BRANCHES ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST CODE CONTENT LOCALLY.
git push origin --delete old-name-of-branch
Then you need to push the newly renamed local branch to remote, to do that you can use this,
git push origin new-name-of-branch
And lastly, you need to reset the upstream branch for the new local branch. You can achieve this using this,
git push origin -u new-name-of-branch
This is done to keep the sync between the remote and local branches.
This is what I do personally to rename the branches in my projects ✅.
That's all! 🌟