---
title: "pushing to remote branch with different name"
date: 2021-09-08T13:02:41+02:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
- git
---

Some times you rename a branch locally and want to push it to a remote branch with a different name.
This is how:

```shell
$ git push -u origin localBranch:remoteBranch
```

source: [stack-overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36139275/git-pushing-to-remote-branch)