Renaming the Local master as main The initial action is to change the name of the “master” branch in your local GIT repositories as “main”: $ git branch -m master main Let’s quickly check if this has worked as expected: $ git status On branch main Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working tree clean So far, so good! The local branch has been renamed - but we now need to make some changes on the remote repository as well!