Mercurial: Can I rename a branch?

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Update to the stiging branch and create a new branch off of it. Then close the old branch.

In summary:

hg update stiging
hg branch staging
hg commit -m"Changing stiging branch to staging."
hg update stiging
hg commit --close-branch -m"This was a typo; use staging instead."
hg push --new-branch

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