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we have a branch on remote called release/service-release-2016

I want to rename the branch to release/completed/service-release-2016 for archiving and clarity.

How do I do this?

Everything I searched for interpreted this as moving around commits and the head, etc. - I'm thinking this is probably pretty easy.

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    Simply run git branch -m release/service-release-2016 release/completed/service-release-2016. Commented Jun 29, 2016 at 20:31

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One way to do this would be to check out the remote branch to a temporary branch name locally, push to the new name on the remote, and then delete the remote branch. For example:

git checkout -b tmp origin/release/service-release-2016

Create the new remote branch:

git push origin tmp:release/completed/service-release-2016

Delete the old remote branch:

git push origin :release/service-release-2016
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