"Transferring a repository" could mention something about forking back after transfering

[bjorn]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

I've already transferred a repository. The documentation states "All links to the previous repository location are automatically redirected to the new location.", which is working great. However, now I would like to know if I can create a fork back to the original account, without destroying those redirects.

Intuitively I would think, that the redirects will be lost entirely, when I would simply fork the repository, but it would be helpful if the docs could confirm this.

As a workaround to this, I am thinking about forking to a temporary account first, then renaming the repository (since it doesn't seem possible to rename while forking), and then transferring the renamed repository to the original account. Before I do this I would like to be sure that the redirects will keep working for the original name, and I think similarly it would be helpful if the docs could include some information about this.

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[ramyaparimi]

@bjorn
Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to take a look 👀

[lecoursen]

Hi @bjorn! These are great questions. Could you please reach out to the Community Forum to find out the answers? We'd then be happy to document that information. I'll close this issue for now, but feel free to re-open once we have that information to act on.

[bjorn]

Hi @bjorn! These are great questions. Could you please reach out to the Community Forum to find out the answers? We'd then be happy to document that information.

Rather than starting another topic, I've decided to just give it a try. I did the following:

• (Transfer the repository bjorn/tiled to mapeditor/tiled, which created redirects)
• Fork mapeditor/tiled to mana/tiled
• Rename the mana/tiled repository to mana/tiled-dev
• Transfer the repository to bjorn/tiled-dev

And I was glad to see, that this way, the redirects from bjorn/tiled to mapeditor/tiled remained intact!

Since there is no way to rename while forking, and forking back with the same name would replace the redirects, I think it would be worthwhile to add a section about these steps to the documentation.