How to make different branch Main_Branch without losing scans

SonarQube
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Hello,
I know you can rename branches in the SQ ui or via api but what I want to do is rename and keep scans from the branches.
When our instance was setup the main_branch got set to the Master branches and we now want to change that to the Develop branches but both branches exist in SQ and both have a lot of history.
So how can I make that change without losing anything?

Thanks

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Hey there.

Today, there’s no way to non-destructively change the main branch to another branch.You can vote on this item in our roadmap

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Let me ask an additional question. So our current setups have main_branch set to Master and we want to change the main_branch setting to be develop branch. How does renaming accomplish this? Is there an additional step I need to take?
I should add, all of our CI/CD setups always pass in the branch name as one of the parameters.

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Renaming the branch will make sure that scans targeting that branch end up in the right place (analyses of develop will land on the branch named develop)