Github Pages edit on renaming repository

[superjolt]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#types-of-github-pages-sites

Not the entire article, just that tiny little subheading, the "types of github pages sites"

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

That part is confusing, when I first tried to do it, it didn't work, there should probably be a kind of big alert or something there, that says that it waits almost 10 minutes for it to actually work.

• it only talks about creating repositories, not actually renaming them, which is what 90% of people do, they have a project and they want to publish it. I thought I have to create it all over again, and copy paste the files and, you know do it again with superjolt.github.io, but yeah.

Summary:

Have an alert that says that you have to wait 10 minutes after having the repository named that way
Make it clear that you can rename/create a repository to have it done

Additional information

A lot of people are affected, 99% of the projects out there don't know if they're going to github pages, or a domain they have, or is it going to flop and it's all useless, there are so many things.

Once you got the grip of it and you say you want github pages, the documentation says you have to create another repository.

That is bad. That isn't clear.

Then you realize, you probably just CAN just rename the pre-existing repository, and then you do it, and the website dosen't work.

You go full panic mode.

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[isaacmbrown]

Hi @superjolt, thank you for opening an issue and linking it to your PR! ⭐ I'll get your PR triaged for review.