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

On the Git branch, run:

git branch -m old_name  new_name

This will modify the branch name on your local repository:

git push origin :old_name new_name

This will push the modified name to the remote and delete the old branch:

git push origin -u new_name

It sets the local branch to track the remote branch.

This solves the issue.