Branches are really just labels git puts on objects and updates every time you commit on them. When you branch off, you're branching from a commit, not from another branch. When merging two branches, git doesn't care about their names either, just about the latest commit they have in common, which doesn't change with a rename.
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Branches are really just labels git puts on objects and updates every time you commit on them. When you branch off, you're branching from a commit, not from another branch. When merging two branches, git doesn't care about their names either, just about the latest commit they have in common, which doesn't change with a rename.