Path-preserving redirects from repo-based github pages to new github pages custom domain?

[FoxxMD]

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I have a website deployed to github pages that does not use a custom domain. Example is https://username.github.io/my-website.

If I update this repo to use a custom domain for GH Pages like https://mydomain.com, how will github handle links that previously linked to the github.io/project path? Specifically, does github pages handle redirecting the page in a 1-to-1 manner?

For example:

Would https://username.github.io/my-website/foo/bar exactly redirect to https://mydomain.com/foo/bar ?

I could not find an explicit answer to this in the github pages docs or with some basic google-fu. I want to deploy with a custom domain but I don't want to lose all of the SEO and historical links from the gh subdomain.

Thanks.

[FoxxMD]

Thanks for the reply!

Do you know about this redirect behavior due to experiencing it yourself with an existing project? If not, can I ask where you found this information?

[FoxxMD]

This and your initial reply are incredibly close to the output claude gave me when I asked this exact same question.

If you are a bot please delete this reply and your initial reply. It's spreading misinformation to reply with confidence about how, or if, the redirect works without actually having evidence of it. Leave this space for users who can answer with actual authority.