Renaming a branch in GitHub

Question

I just renamed my local branch using

git branch -m oldname newname

but this only renames the local version of the branch. How can I rename

Answer 1

This article shows how to do it real easy.

1. To rename a local Git branch, we can use the Git branch -m command to modify the name:

    git branch -m feature1 feature2
   

2. If you’re just looking for the command to rename a remote Git branch, this is it:

    git push -u origin feature2:feature3
   

   Check that you have no tags on the branch before you do this. You can do that with git tag.