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feat: adding mentions about forking back after transferring repos (#2…
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Co-authored-by: Steve Guntrip <[email protected]>
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CBID2 and guntrip authored Oct 18, 2023
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{% warning %}

**Warning**: If you create a new repository under your account in the future, do not reuse the original name of the transferred repository. If you do, redirects to the transferred repository will no longer work.
**Warning**: If you create a new repository or fork at the previous repository location, the redirects to the transferred repository will be deactivated. They can be reactivated by renaming or deleting the new repository or fork.

{% endwarning %}

- When you transfer a repository from an organization to a personal account, the repository's read-only collaborators will not be transferred. This is because collaborators can't have read-only access to repositories owned by a personal account. For more information about repository permission levels, see "[AUTOTITLE](/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-personal-account-settings/permission-levels-for-a-personal-account-repository)" and "[AUTOTITLE](/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/repository-roles-for-an-organization)."{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}
- Sponsors who have access to the repository through a sponsorship tier may be affected. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/sponsors/receiving-sponsorships-through-github-sponsors/managing-your-sponsorship-tiers#adding-a-repository-to-a-sponsorship-tier)".{% endif %}
- Packages associated with the repository {% ifversion packages-registries-v2 %}may be transferred, or may lose their link to the repository, depending on the registry they belong to{% else %}are transferred as part of the transfer process{% endif %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/packages/learn-github-packages/about-permissions-for-github-packages#about-repository-transfers)."
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