Rename the master branch to main in Git

Git has been changing the naming convention of the default branch from the name master to main.

The first step is to rename the local branch:

$ git branch -m master main

Check the status of the repository:

$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
 
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Now we push the new branch to the remote:

$ git push -u origin main

Now before we can delete the old master branch, we might need to change the default branch of the remote repository to the new main branch. After that’s done, we can delete the old branch:

$ git push origin --delete master