You'll need to resolve this before you can go on. Additionally, your old 'master' might be set as 'protected'. ! master (refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master)Įrror: failed to push some refs to like other code-hosting platforms, too, expects you to define a 'default' branch - and deleting this is not allowed. In many cases, however, you will see an error message like the following one: To Let's go on and remove the old 'master' branch on the remote: $ git push origin -delete masterĭepending on your exact setup, this might have worked and the renaming is successful. We now have a new branch on the remote named 'main'. Make sure your current local HEAD branch is still 'main' when executing the following command: $ git push -u origin main

Instead, we'll have to create a new 'main' branch and then delete the old 'master' branch. In the second step, we'll have to create a new branch on the remote named 'main' - because Git does not allow to simply 'rename' a remote branch. So far, so good! The local branch has been renamed - but we now need to make some changes on the remote repository as well! Renaming the Remote master Branch as Well

Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. Let's quickly check if this has worked as expected: $ git status The first step is to rename the 'master' branch in your local Git repositories: $ git branch -m master main

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