It’s also worth noting that branch names are case sensitive. Please note there is only 1 dash before the ‘m’ and 2 dashes before the ‘move’. And -m and –move do exactly the same thing. What is the -m flag in this command? : git branch -m branch-name-now new-branch-name This is exactly the same as: git branch -move branch-name new-branch-name What are Git branch -m and –move … which renames the branch which is called branch-name to new-branch-name. The first line uses this generic command form: git branch -m branch-name new-branch-name The first line renames the local master branch to main, the second line pushes new main branch to the remote repo. If you want to rename your master branch to main then run this git command: git branch -m master main Some git systems still name the initial git branch master but it’s pretty common in other systems for the initial branch to be called main, which is my preference. You can see in the image above that I am still on main, there are still 3 other branches, but we now have a branch called new-branch-name instead of branch-name-now. Now use the git branch command to list your local branches again. This means ‘please rename the branch which is called branch-name-now to new-branch-name‘. Putting all of this together you can use this command to rename a local git branch : git branch -m branch-name-now new-branch-name You will also have to specify the name of the branch you want to rename and the name you want to rename it to. To rename a local git branch you need to use the git branch -m command ( official documentation is here). You can also see that there are 3 other branches, one of which is called branch-name-now.
In the list you can see in the image above that we are currently on the main branch, as it’s highlighted in green and has an asterisk next to it.
#GIT RENAME BRANCH MASTER TO MAIN HOW TO#
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