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Explain the recommendation to use the homebrew- prefix.
As pointed out in: https://discourse.brew.sh/t/couldnt-tap-github-repo-without-homebrew-prefix/3178/2
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@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ A tap is usually a Git repository available online, but you can use anything as
long as it’s a protocol that Git understands, or even just a directory with
files in it.
If hosted on GitHub, we recommend that the repository’s name start with
`homebrew-`.
`homebrew-` so the short `brew tap` command can be used.
See the [manpage](Manpage.md) for more information on repository naming.
Tap formulae follow the same format as the core’s ones, and can be added at the
repository’s root, or under `Formula` or `HomebrewFormula` subdirectories. We