@@ -350,26 +350,47 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
       readonly body?: string;
     }) {
       const base = new URL(`${input.baseUrl}/api/v1/`);
-      const url = new URL(input.path, base);
-      if (
-        url.origin !== base.origin ||
-        !url.pathname.startsWith(base.pathname) ||
-        url.username ||
-        url.password
-      )
+      const apiUrl = (path: string, from: string) => {
+        const url = URL.parse(path, from);
+        return url &&
+          url.origin === base.origin &&
+          url.pathname.startsWith(base.pathname) &&
+          !url.username &&
+          !url.password
+          ? url
+          : undefined;
+      };
+      const requested = apiUrl(input.path, base.href);
+      if (!requested)
         return yield* new ForgejoCliError({
           command: "fj",
           cwd: input.cwd,
           detail: "Invalid Forgejo API path.",
         });
-      let request = HttpClientRequest.make(input.method ?? "GET")(url.toString()).pipe(
-        HttpClientRequest.setHeader("Authorization", `token ${input.token}`),
-      );
-      if (input.body !== undefined)
-        request = request.pipe(HttpClientRequest.bodyText(input.body, "application/json"));
-      const response = yield* httpClient
-        .execute(request)
-        .pipe(Effect.provideService(FetchHttpClient.RequestInit, { redirect: "manual" }));
+      let url = requested;
+      const send = (target: URL) => {
+        let request = HttpClientRequest.make(input.method ?? "GET")(target.toString()).pipe(
+          HttpClientRequest.setHeader("Authorization", `token ${input.token}`),
+        );
+        if (input.body !== undefined)
+          request = request.pipe(HttpClientRequest.bodyText(input.body, "application/json"));
+        return httpClient
+          .execute(request)
+          .pipe(Effect.provideService(FetchHttpClient.RequestInit, { redirect: "manual" }));
+      };
+      let response = yield* send(url);
+      // Forgejo redirects a renamed repository's API paths before running the handler,
+      // so the same method and body are re-sent. The token never leaves the API base.
+      for (let hops = 0; hops < 5; hops++) {
+        const location = response.headers.location;
+        const next =
+          location && [301, 302, 307, 308].includes(response.status)
+            ? apiUrl(location, url.href)
+            : undefined;
+        if (!next) break;
+        url = next;
+        response = yield* send(url);
+      }
       const status = response.status;
       const body =
         status === 204 || status === 205
 
@@ -1786,6 +1786,62 @@ it.effect("loads later fj review pages when the server caps pages below the requ
   );
 });
 
+it.effect("re-sends an fj write with its method and body to a renamed repository's path", () => {
+  const requests: string[] = [];
+  return Effect.gen(function* () {
+    const cli = yield* ForgejoCli.make;
+    yield* cli.api({
+      cwd: "/repo",
+      repository: "https://forgejo.local/maria/old-name",
+      path: "repos/maria/old-name/issues/42/comments",
+      method: "POST",
+      body: { body: "only once" },
+    });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(requests, [
+      "https://forgejo.local/api/v1/repos/maria/old-name/issues/42/comments",
+      "https://forgejo.local/api/v1/repos/maria/new-name/issues/42/comments",
+    ]);
+  }).pipe(
+    Effect.provideService(
+      FileSystem.FileSystem,
+      FileSystem.makeNoop({
+        exists: () => Effect.succeed(true),
+        readFileString: () =>
+          Effect.succeed(
+            encodeJson({
+              hosts: { "forgejo.local": { type: "Application", token: "test-token" } },
+            }),
+          ),
+      }),
+    ),
+    Effect.provideService(
+      HttpClient.HttpClient,
+      HttpClient.make((request) => {
+        requests.push(request.url);
+        assert.strictEqual(request.method, "POST");
+        assert.strictEqual(request.headers.authorization, "token test-token");
+        assert.deepStrictEqual(requestJson(request), { body: "only once" });
+        return Effect.succeed(
+          HttpClientResponse.fromWeb(
+            request,
+            requests.length === 1
+              ? new Response(null, {
+                  status: 301,
+                  headers: { location: "/api/v1/repos/maria/new-name/issues/42/comments" },
+                })
+              : new Response("{}", { status: 201 }),
+          ),
+        );
+      }),
+    ),
+    Effect.provide(
+      TestSourceControlHost.layer({
+        process: { run: () => Effect.succeed(processOutput("")) },
+      }),
+    ),
+  );
+});
+
 it.effect("handles fj mutation statuses without retrying failures or reading absent bodies", () =>
   Effect.gen(function* () {
     for (const status of [204, 205, 302, 401, 403, 404, 429, 500]) {