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by bnferguson 4440 days ago
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].

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-when-i-change-...