Rename Git Remote

If the need arises to change the name of a git remote, in the past, I've normally done one of these two things:

• delete and recreate the remote
• manually edit the remote info in .git/config

Turns out there is a git command for this and I completely missed it!

git remote rename OLD_NAME NEW_NAME

As you can probably imagine, this handles the name change as well as the reference change in the config.

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