Change Default branch in gitlab

Question

I accidentally pushed my local master to a branch called origin on gitlab and now it is the default. Is there a way to rename this branch or set a new master branch to maste

Answer 1

First I needed to remote into my server with ssh. If someone has a non ssh way of doing this please post.

I found my bare repositories at

cd /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/group-name/project-name.git

used

git branch 

to see the wrong active branch

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master

to change the master to to be the branch called master then use the web interface and "git branch" to confirm.