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Duplicate Repo

  1. clone the repo
$ git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/old-repository.git
  1. Push to new repository
$ cd old-repository.git
$ git push --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git
  1. Delete old repository you recently cloned
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf old-repository.git
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