Tip: Only members with owner privileges for an organization or admin privileges for a repository can rename a repository. For more information, see " Repository roles for an organization. Warning : If you create a new repository under your account in the future, do not reuse the original name of the renamed repository.
If you do, redirects to the renamed repository will break. All GitHub docs are open source. See something that's wrong or unclear?
Submit a pull request. Or, learn how to contribute. Rename your local branch. If you are on the branch you want to rename: git branch -m new-name If you are on a different branch: git branch -m old-name new-name 2.
Delete the old-name remote branch and push the new-name local branch. Reset the upstream branch for the new-name local branch. Switch to the branch and then: git push origin -u new-name So the conclusion is: git branch -m new-name git push origin :old-name new-name git push origin -u new-name. Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelrahman Mohamed 9 9 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges.
This is for git and GitHub is under git so it will work and it works with me and with others — Abdelrahman Mohamed. It doesn't work. It will fail. If this answer is only about git and not github then this question is a duplicate of several other questions and should be closed. If it really is about github then the answer has to cover github. This answer does not. For me I only needed to do steps 1 and 2, and this process worked — coderboi. Just remove the old branch and create new one.
Maybe the order of two commands should be reversed i. Try it. Maurici Abad 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. VonC VonC 1. Unfortunately as of writing, the "re-target any open pull requests" part is only true for "base" branches, and "regular" branches associated to a pull-request will still close the PR in question.
Delete step: Git reference: git push origin :experimental Find a ref that matches experimental in the origin repository e. Update on remote repository step upstream reference for tracking : Git reference: --set-upstream For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add upstream tracking reference, used by argument-less git-pull[1] and other commands.
Wiley Wiley 4 4 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Ansh Shrivastava Ansh Shrivastava 53 6 6 bronze badges. This article shows how to do it real easy. Daniel Kobe Daniel Kobe 8, 12 12 gold badges 46 46 silver badges 96 96 bronze badges.
What does "This article" refer to? Please respond by editing your answer , not here in comments. Another way is to rename the following files : Navigate your project directory. Branch is now renamed local and remote! Copy the branch file from. Put it in. Copy the branch file from all of. Put them in. Rename all copied branch files to new-branch-name. Check if the directory and file structure now looks like this:.
Directories in branch-name got removed. Iyashi Iyashi 3 3 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. In my case, I needed an additional command, git branch --unset-upstream to get my renamed branch to push up to origin newname. Collaborate with groups. Manage membership.
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