It also looks like there has been no activity for 10 months on that account:
https://gitlab.com/users/eigen/activity On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:26 PM Patrik Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gael, > > >> since "eigen" is already taken (and I got no answer from the owner > despite one reminder) > > Have you contacted GitLab support about this? They're usually quite > responsive. Eigen is a project with quite some weight behind it, it may not > be unlikely that they can do something. > > -Patrik > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 09:55, Wood, Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *> *This also remind me that we'll have to do something about this >> git-mirror. We can either: >> >> > (1) - make it empty with a link to the new git repo >> >> > (2) - keep it as is (i.e., no sync) for a short period and then proceed >> as (1) >> >> > (3) - delete it and recreate it as a synced mirror of the new repo, and >> then after a short period proceed as (1) >> >> >> >> > If I'm not mistaken option (3) will probably break all users of this >> mirror, so that's probably not the best option! >> >> >> >> I am one of the users of the current github mirror, and yes, as I >> understand it option 3 isn’t really an option because of the re-written >> history. I see no point in it. >> >> >> >> I think option (1) is best. I look forward to swapping over to the gitlab >> mirror. >> >> >> >> Toby >> >
