On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 22:07:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/14/2016 2:59 PM, Seb wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 21:55:36 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2016 12:40 PM, Seb wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be easier to have d-lang redirect to 
>>> d-programming-language?
>>
>> Github doesn't support that directly - only for renames, 
>> besides the point is
>> that new urls become a lot shorter and similar to dlang.org 
>> like
>> github.com/dlang/dmd. Short names are trendy and young people 
>> like me love such
>> names :)
>
> I don't get it. If D-Programming-Language can redirect to 
> dlang, then the reverse should be easy (and nothing else will 
> have to change).

The entire idea was to move forward to dlang and thanks to github 
redirects (nearly) nothing has to change ;-)