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Mirroring a repository

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

Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1.

$ cd ..
$ rm -rf old-repository.git
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