How to duplicate a git repository without forking

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I have two repositories  and I need to copy whole of one onto the other empty one which has different access levels from the first one  The copy and the mother repository should not be linked together   I am new to git and it would be awesome if someone could help me with this

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See https   help github com articles duplicating-a-repository  Short version   In order to make an exact duplicate  you need to perform both a bare-clone and a mirror-push   mkdir foo  cd foo    move to a scratch dir  git clone --bare https   github com exampleuser old-repository git   Make a bare clone of the repository  cd old-repository git git push --mirror https   github com exampleuser new-repository git   Mirror-push to the new repository  cd    rm -rf old-repository git     Remove our temporary local repository   NOTE  the above will work fine with any remote git repo  the instructions are not specific to github  The above creates a new remote copy of the repo  Then clone it down to your working machine

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If you just want to create a new repository using all or most of the files from an existing one  i e   as a kind of template   I find the easiest approach is to make a new repo with the desired name etc  clone it to your desktop  then just add the files and folders you want in it   You don t get all the history etc  but you probably don t want that in this case

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If you are copying to GitHub  you may use the GitHub Importer to do that for you  The original repo can even be from other version control systems

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You can also use git-copy   Install it with Gem   gem install git-copy   Then  git copy https   github com exampleuser old-repository git       https   github com exampleuser new-repository git

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Open Terminal   Create a bare clone of the repository      git clone --bare https   github com exampleuser old-repository git   Mirror-push to the new repository    cd old-repository git     git push --mirror https   github com exampleuser new-repository git

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I have noticed some of the other answers here use a bare clone and then mirror push to the new repository  however this does not work for me and when I open the new repository after that  the files look mixed up and not as I expect  Here is a solution that definitely works for copying the files  although it does not preserve the original repository s revision history   git clone the repository onto your local machine  cd into the project directory and then run rm -rf  git to remove all the old git metadata including commit history  etc  Initialize a fresh git repository by running git init  Run git add     git commit -am  quot Initial commit quot  - Of course you can call this commit what you want  Set the origin to your new repository git remote add origin https   github com user repo-name  replace the url with the url to your new repository  Push it to your new repository with git push origin master

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