Easiest way to rename git project configured on BitBucket

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Paul Taylor picture Paul Taylor · Aug 26, 2014 · Viewed 40.7k times · Source

I have a project hosted on BitBucket

Can I rename it ?

If not and I need to create a new repository can someone tell me the easiest way to do that and have new repo on BitBucket (one particular cause of confusion for me is whether to drive the process locally or from the bitbucket website)

Update

Thankyou Rafal I've followed your instructions and it works great but Im just going to make it a little clearer for noobies like myself (on linux)

  1. In Bitbucket project settings rename project
  2. vi projectname/.git/config and edit url value to reflect new bitbucket repository url
  3. mv projectname newprojectname

Answer

Rafal picture Rafal · Aug 26, 2014

You can rename the project form the settings menu of the projects on Bitbucket.

Once you rename it, you need to update your git config file to fetch the data from the new location

nano .git/config

Change the name of the project to the new name and save

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