GitKraken how to reopen merged branch with the same name

Question

I created the branch b1 from master. After some commites pull-request was created, approved, merged into master and deleted. But I still have b1 on local machine, which I dont't want to delete. And now I want to reopen branch with the same name b1 from master, but GitKraken throws an error:

Cannot create the ref because it already exists.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

You can't have two different branches with the same name.

You can either delete your existing branch : since it was merged into master, the complete history of this branch should be part of master anyway,
or you can rename the existing branch on your local clone :

# choose any suitable target name :
git branch -m b1 archived/b1

and create a new b1 branch from wherever you want.