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> ...until the project decides to switch to another hosting provider

Or decides their github username looks better with an upper case letter (https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/570). Or for people who use their real name as their github name, updating their username after marriage, divorce, gender transition or whatever.



Or they create a github organisation (which might be even worse because the old repo probably still exists but could be stale)




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