Transferring a GitHub repository takes about two clicks, and those clicks are rarely the problem. I went through 80 public reports of repository transfers going wrong, from Vercel's and Netlify's forums, GitHub, Railway, Reddit and Stack Overflow. The transfer itself failed in only 12 of them. The rest broke afterwards: hosting that quietly stopped deploying (22), a GitHub Pages site or custom domain that went down (15), and people locked out of accounts the old developer still controlled (12).

Every guide ranking for this search shows you GitHub's Transfer button and stops there. This one covers the button, and then everything connected to the repository that the button doesn't move.

It's also how I think about code in general. At The AI Lab, the code I work on, including the Trust Identity Protocol, lives in a GitHub organization, not in anyone's personal account. People join and leave; the code stays with the business.…