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Repository redirects are here
- oms1005 13y agoWould this affect a new repo I make if it's named after one I renamed before?
- sli 13y agoNo, because it would still have a different owner, same as forks do.
- nullsoldier 13y agoHe's talking about if it's by the same owner (him). See beefsack's response which answers this question.
- beefsack 13y agoMy testing: 1. Create https://github.com/beefsack/test1 https://github.com/beefsack/test1 2. Rename to https://github.com/beefsack/test2 https://github.com/beefsack/test2, redirect works 3. Create new https://github.com/beefsack/test1 https://github.com/beefsack/test1, link from (1) points to this new repo So yeah, it looks like it works.
- songgao 13y agoCool. Glad it's finally here. Although I have some concerns here: Is this an option or not changeable? Does this mean you can't use [a previous name of an existing repo] as a new repo's name?
- olalonde 13y ago> There is one caveat with the new redirect support worth noting: GitHub Pages sites are not automatically redirected when their repositories are renamed at this time. Surprising that they didn't implement this as it seems like the easiest thing to implement and pretty damn useful.
- shurcooL 13y agoWhat if you're in a situation where you have both the source and target repo already present, each with their separate issues (which you'd like to combine). I assume you'd have to combine everything in one repo, delete the other, and perform the rename. Does that sound right?
- daGrevis 13y agoWhy this wasn't implemented at the first time. Doesn't seem hard to do...
- cjh_ 13y agoAt least with username level redirects this decreases the number of available usernames, unless this is somehow taken into account.