Mirror a repo, Update a remote copy, while stripping history

gistfile1.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOURCE_REPO="" #ie. git@github.com:veritech/FRCoreDataOperation.git
DESTINATION_REPO="" #git@github.com:veritech/mirror.git
FORMATTED_DATE=`date +"%B %d %Y"`

# Get the head of the mirror repo
git clone $DESTINATION_REPO mirror

# Get the head of the of the source repo
git clone --depth 1 $SOURCE_REPO original

# Copy the contents over 
rsync -avr --progress original/ mirror --exclude .git

# Go the mirror
cd mirror

# Add all the files
git add -A

# 
git commit -m "$FORMATTED_DATE release"

git push origin master

cd ..

rm -rf orginal
rm -rf mirror