You have a repository, call it alice/repo. You would like to transfer it to the user bob, so it will become bob/repo.
However, you make heavy use of the GitHub Pages feature, so that people are often accessing https://alice.github.io/repo/. GitHub will helpfully redirect all of your repository stuff hosted on github.com after the move, but will not redirect the GitHub Pages hosted on github.io.
| cd repository | |
| git checkout --orphan orphan_name | |
| git rm -rf . | |
| rm '.gitignore' | |
| echo "#Title of Readme" > README.md | |
| git add README.md | |
| git commit -a -m "Initial Commit" | |
| git push origin orphan_name |
http://example.com
http://example.com
| <!doctype html> | |
| <title>Site Maintenance</title> | |
| <style> | |
| body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; } | |
| h1 { font-size: 50px; } | |
| body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; } | |
| article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; } | |
| a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; } | |
| a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; } | |
| </style> |