diff --git a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRepository.java b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRepository.java
index aba2feb18..421a7de1d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRepository.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRepository.java
@@ -190,6 +190,26 @@ public class GHRepository {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Either you don't have the privilege to fork into "+org.getLogin()+" or there's a bug in HTML scraping");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Rename this repository.
+     */
+    public void renameTo(String newName) throws IOException {
+        WebClient wc = root.createWebClient();
+        HtmlPage pg = (HtmlPage)wc.getPage(getUrl()+"/admin");
+        for (HtmlForm f : pg.getForms()) {
+            if (!f.getActionAttribute().endsWith("/rename"))  continue;
+            try {
+                f.getInputByName("name").setValueAttribute(newName);
+                f.submit((HtmlButton)f.getElementsByTagName("button").get(0));
+                name = newName;
+            } catch (ElementNotFoundException e) {
+                // continue
+            }
+        }
+
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Either you don't have the privilege to rename "+owner+'/'+name+" or there's a bug in HTML scraping");
+    }
+
 
     private void verifyMine() throws IOException {
         if (!root.login.equals(owner))
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/AppTest.java b/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/AppTest.java
index 1fc20e1b6..fb0fe81f1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/AppTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/AppTest.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ public class AppTest extends TestCase {
     public void testApp() throws IOException {
         GitHub gitHub = GitHub.connect();
 
+//        tryRenaming(gitHub);
 //        tryOrgFork(gitHub);
 
 //        testOrganization(gitHub);
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ public class AppTest extends TestCase {
 //        System.out.println(hub.getUser("kohsuke").getRepository("hudson").getCollaborators());
     }
 
+    private void tryRenaming(GitHub gitHub) throws IOException {
+        gitHub.getUser("kohsuke").getRepository("test").renameTo("test2");
+    }
+
     private void tryOrgFork(GitHub gitHub) throws IOException {
         GHOrganization o = gitHub.getOrganization("HudsonLabs");
         System.out.println(gitHub.getUser("rtyler").getRepository("memcache-ada").forkTo(o).getUrl());