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Copy a repo without forking

How to copy a GitHub repo without forking

GitHub only lets you fork a repo once, if you want to make more than one copy of a project here's how you can do it. Useful for starter code.

  1. Create a new empty folder for your project and initialize git

    cd where-you-keep-your-projects
    mkdir your-project-name
    cd your-project-name
    git init
  2. "Pull" the repo you want to copy:

    # git url is the same as the clone URL
    git pull git-url-of-the-repo-you-want-to-copy
  3. Create a new repository for your project on GitHub

  4. Push your code to the new repository you just created

    git remote add origin git-url-of-the-new-repo-you-created
    git push -u origin master
    
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