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As title says, is it possible to rename a github repo like fooBar-for-MySQL-and-PHP to foobar-for-mysql-and-php without killing the link to your repo ? And have there been any issues with common git tools ?
To make this clearer: This question is not about renaming and losing watchers, starrers and forks, it's about changing from uppercase to lowercase, which might have effects like "URL not found". I have too much starrers & forks to simply try this out.
Github's official help section does not note this case (https://help.github.com/).
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Repository NamesUse only lower case alphanumeric characters. Use '-' rather than spaces or underscores.
One concern many users have is that the renaming of a GitHub repository will cause problems with Git clone, push, pull, and fetch operations, as the GitHub URL is changed, and that often leads to a repository not found error.
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Settings. Under the Repository Name heading, type the new name of your repository. Click Rename.
Git was built originally to be the Linux kernel's version control system, so unsurprisingly, it's case-sensitive.
For the repo page, it is no problem
http://github.com/svnpenn/BM
However for the "Github Pages" page, big problem
http://svnpenn.github.io/BM
404 There isn't a GitHub Page here. Are you trying to publish one? We'll send you an email when your page has been built. It may take up to ten minutes until your page is available.
To conclude, do not do it.
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