Rename remote branch

Question

I have created a local branch X that at some point I pushed to remote server (origin)

git push origin X

I realized it\'s a bad idea to have bra

Answer 1

other people will keep a pointer to branch X (as origin/X) in their repository until they run git remote prune origin. it's left as a stale branch

when fetching/pulling they will get a second point to (newly created) branch Y (as origin/Y)

branching and merging is not affected by this.

so, as long as all commits are still reachable from your branch, renaming is fine.