Renaming a local and remote Git branch is a common task that keeps your project organized, especially as it grows. Descriptive and meaningful branch names help clarify the purpose of each branch.

Here's a quick example that shows you how to rename a Git branch locally and remotely. The branch renaming commands and techniques work with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and any cloud-based Git vendor.

Rename or move a file: git mv Git keeps track of the changes to files in the working directory of a repository by their name. When you move or rename a file, Git doesn’t see that a file was moved, but ...

Sometimes new business requirements will force a Git admin to rename a GitHub repository. Here's how to do it, and here's how it will impact existing users.