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When you rename yourself on GitHub, their Help says they put in redirects for all of your repositories (that last until such time as someone else claims your ol
by eridius 8y ago
When you rename yourself on GitHub, their Help says they put in redirects for all of your repositories (that last until such time as someone else claims your old name and creates a new repository with the same name as one of your old repositories, as this new repository supersedes the redirect). So squatting on your old name is a good idea to protect the repository URLs, but actually transferring your repositories to the squatted name seems unnecessary.
- shurcooL 8y agoYeah, I was aware of the redirects, they're very helpful! It would've been okay to rely on redirects on a temporary basis if my long-term plan was to move everything to the new username. But I wanted the repos to keep their old URL permanently, so that's why I moved them.