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How to rename local and remote branch on Git

Have you been on a rush and created a branch with orthographic errors?

I do!

So its very simple gets rid of this mistake. Even if you had pushed into remote

Renaming local branch

Its very simple, just use the -m flag

git branch -m old_branch new_branch

But if want to delete pushed branches to?

just run:

git push origin : old_branch

Then push your new branch to origin

git push --set-upstream origin new_branch
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