Re:They say “nothing will change”
by bnferguson on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @01:51PM
(#7599303)
Yeah, that's totally understandable. Fortunately almost all of these cases are for accounts with no repositories.
In cases where an account does have repositories (user initiated renames) the old URLs/repos will redirect as long as another user doesn't take the old name and create repos with the same name[1].
In cases where an account does have repositories (user initiated renames) the old URLs/repos will redirect as long as another user doesn't take the old name and create repos with the same name[1].
[1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-when-i-change-...