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New repo with the old name of this breaks GitHub redirects, causing submodules to fail in existing projects #6

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@Mr-Wiseguy

I have a project that submodules this repo from before the rename, which understandably had the old URL as the remote. However, after the creation of the new repo that has the same name as this one used to have (https://github.com/SergeyMakeev/slot_map), submodule cloning fails as the commits are no longer found at that URL.

I'll be updating the remote of my project to point to this new URL, but it'd be preferred for the old URL to redirect to this one instead of pointing to a brand new repo with no history.

Alternatively, a compromise could be to put the git history up to the rename in that other repo so that submodules don't break for existing projects. However, this would still require existing clones of projects that submodule this repo to manually update their submodule's origin, which can be confusing for some contributors.

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