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How to change the development branch in BitBucket?

How do I change the development branch for my BitBucket repository? Right now my master branch is labeled as both the main and the development branch.

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This is a near duplicate of this question: How to change the main branch in BitBucket? however, I couldn't find anything telling me how to change the label for the development label and since it is different enough, I thought it warranted its own post for anyone in the future looking for this answer. (the top answer there is pretty clear so I copied the format he used)

Solution
    1. Repositories

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    1. Select repository
    2. Click Repository settings (bottom of menu)

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    1. In the menu under WORKFLOW select Branching model

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    1. Should see a screen that looks like this at the top

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    1. Click the dropdown menu under Development branch and change it to Use specific branch. After that you should be able to click the dropdown menu next to it and change it to whatever branch you want

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    1. Make sure to hit save at the bottom

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    1. After saving it might take like 30 seconds but when you go back to your branches they should now have the DEVELOPMENT label changed to the branch you specified

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    I do not know how to do this from the terminal.