It is confusing. I find it easier to remember that gorhill is the good guy.

To make things even more confusing gorhill is actually the creator of the original ublock too.

The way that I recall it is like this:

gorhill created uBlock.

After some amount of time gorhill found that the uBlock project was taking up too much of his time.

gorhill handed over the uBlock project to someone else.

That other person or other group of people took the uBlock project in a direction that gorhill did not agree with.

gorhill decided that because of this, he should continue to maintain a version of uBlock.

Thus was born uBlock Origin.

Short version of it is, gorhill actually willingly gave the project away to a contributor who later started to ask for donations. This was not appreciated (hence the very explicit "no donations" policy gorhill now has) and caused a bit of drama and gorhill started developing his own version again. This part I didn't know, but apparently he's not that bitter about it as the guy who took over the project is quite young. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/130#issuecomment-96...

If i recall correctly, they have the same name because they were once the same project. Renaming would likely break many workflows/bookmarks that people use to tell the difference. Maybe mirroring the existing repo to another with origin in the name would be a compromise?

>Can you rename repos in github?

Yes you can, and GH sets up an automatic redirect from the old name to the new name (as long as you don't create a new repo with the old name).