# GitHub theme / component names don't override local names

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [12 mei 2019 om 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492 "2019-05-12T01:38:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chaboi_3000/32/163015_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chaboi_3000)
#### Post date: [12 mei 2019 om 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492/1 "2019-05-12T01:38:44Z")

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Repro Steps:

- Import a theme from GitHub to the theme creator

- Change the theme name in about.json of the GitHub repository.  

- Click 🔄 check for updates  

- It should say You’re one commit behind!  

- Update it.

- The name should be changed, but it doesn’t.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 mei 2019 om 01:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492/2 "2019-05-12T01:48:37Z")

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What do you think @david?

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [12 mei 2019 om 10:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492/3 "2019-05-12T10:11:12Z")

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It’s designed so that you can update the name in Discourse to anything you want, without being overridden by GIT changes. For example, you might have multiple “alternate logo theme” components, and want to make the names more specific for each one.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 mei 2019 om 12:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492/4 "2019-05-12T12:20:05Z")

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So this is not a bug then?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 mei 2019 om 00:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-theme-component-names-dont-override-local-names/117492/5 "2019-05-13T00:27:59Z")

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Sort of a bug, we should update the name if the name changed in git and user did not override it.

Pretty big edge case though.