How to rename a directory folder on GitHub website

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I was able to find a way on GitHub Website to rename a single file and did so with success   I was also able to find a way to rename a whole repository and did that with success    Does anyone know how to do this to a single directory without using command line  For reference  I am trying to change a directory named InterviewTesting  that contains src files  etc  to something else  I tried doing it the single file way   But this didn t allow me to change the name of the directory  InterviewTesting   only the actual file name

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Go into your directory and click on  Settings  next to the little cog  There is a field to rename your directory

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As a newer user to git  I took the following approach  From the command line  I was able to rename a folder by creating a new folder  copying the files to it  adding and commiting locally and pushing  These are my steps    mkdir newfolder   cp oldfolder   newfolder  git add newfolder   git commit -m  start rename        git push                              New Folder appears on Github        git rm -r oldfolder  git commit -m  rename complete    git push                              Old Folder disappears on Github     Probably a better way  but it worked for me

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There is no way to do this in the GitHub web application  I believe to only way to do this is in the command line using git mv  lt old name gt   lt new name gt  or by using a Git client like SourceTree

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You could use a workflow for this       github workflows rename yaml name  Rename Directory  on    push   jobs    rename      runs-on  ubuntu-latest     steps        - uses  actions checkout v2       - run  git mv old name new name       - uses  EndBug add-and-commit v5 1 0  Then just delete the workflow file  which you can do in the UI

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I changed the  Untitlted Folder  name by going upward one directory where the untitled folder and other docs are listed    Tick the little white box in front of the  Untitled Folder   a  rename  button will show up at the top  Then click and change the folder name into whatever kinky name you want   See the  Rename  button

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I had an issue with github missing out on some case sensitive changes to folders  I needed to keep migration history so an example of how I changed  basicApp  folder in github to  basicapp     git ls-files   git mv basicApp basicapp temp   git add     git commit -am  temporary change    git push origin master   git mv basicapp temp basicapp   git add     git commit -am  change to desired name    git push origin master   PS  git ls-files will show you how github sees your folder name

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Actually  there is a way to rename a folder using web interface     See https   github com blog 1436-moving-and-renaming-files-on-github

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Go to that directory folder and then click on the setting  In the section of  quot Repository name quot  simply rename it

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You can  Just press edit as per  committedandroider s original post and then hit backspace with your cursor at the start of the filename  It will let you then edit the folder  When done hit forward slash to then edit the filename again

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If you have GitHub Desktop  change the names of the directories on your computer and then push the update from your desktop to your github account and it changes them there      Hope it helps

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