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I don't want to rename a remote branch, as described in Rename master branch for both local and remote Git repositories. How can I rename a local branch which hasn't been pushed to a remote branch? In ...

We have a branch called ABC-Awsome_Branch , that is "saved" in feature/3.0.0, so it looks like: feature/3.0.0/ABC-Awsome_Branch But the branch was created with an incorrect name, and even not in the ...

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 ...

I've created a new branch in local with below command and started working on code changes. master> git checkout -b "mybranch" Later, I realized that I needed to follow our standard and that I ...

I have a single-developer app that was originally written in Python. A few years ago, I decided to try porting it to Go, mainly as a learning exercise. I created a new branch go-port that I used for ...

I have a local branch master that points to a remote branch origin/regacy (oops, typo!). How do I rename the remote branch to origin/legacy or origin/master? I tried: git remote rename regacy legacy ...

I have the branch master which tracks the remote branch origin/master. I want to rename them to master-old both locally and on the remote. Is this possible? For other users who tracked origin/...

How do I rename an existing branch in a Git repo? I want the current branch to have a new name.

We would like to enforce a new policy for our projects that the master branch now be called the release branch to ensure it is more clear as to how the branch should be used. Naturally, we will have ...

I know the way to rename branch from command line, but - since I'm using TortoiseGit - I'm curious if there are any options to do such thing. Thanks for the answers :)

One of the things github now recommends is changing the branch to main instead of master. The code given on the github site is: git branch -M main That never works for me, so I thought I would ...

I have a base repository that lives on a UNC \machine\share ....etc. I have a local clone that I work on in the master branch and occasionally merge over to the "stable" branch. usually I do a git ...

I have cloned a git repository. This repository has a remote branch something like -feature-abc. When I type git checkout -feature-abc, I get: error: unknown switch `e' Any idea how to checkout this ...

I've taken over a big git repository with lots of branches that no one really seems to know what they are all about. Is there any way to put branches in some kind of grouping or folder so that they ...

Please help to make Head point to master in git I tried to git rebase HEAD master and git checkout master Nothing of those helps. Updated: Strange I tried: git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/...