I have a private repo on Github that I used for a small take-home project for an interview with a company. There were 2 engineers who were watching my repo but I didn't finish the project. I want to keep working on it and add more features / scale it up in a separate public repo.

I know I cannot fork my current private repo, but I would like to copy it to a new one and maintain the branches and commits I made. I also want to remove any ties between the old and new repo so that any commits I make to the new repo will not be reflected in the old repo.

Does anyone know what git commands I should use?

I was looking into Duplicating a Repository but I wasn't sure if doing a bare clone for the repo will separate the 2 repos so that any new commits will be only made to the new repo.

CodePudding user response：

First, you will need to

git clone

your old repo. Now let's download all branches:

git pull --all

Now, let's add a new remote, like

git remote add newremote [email protected]:portfolio/space.space_name.git

See more here: https://articles.assembla.com/en/articles/1136998-how-to-add-a-new-remote-to-your-git-repo

Now, let's push all

git push --all newrepo

CodePudding user response：

Using the git --mirror method:

1. clone the old private repo

2. create a new public repo on github

3. Create a new remote for the public repository on your local machine, like this:

   git remote add public https://github.com/benevolentBanana135/new-public-repo.git

4. Push all branches and commits from your private repository to the public repository (that's where the magic happens):

   git push --mirror public

comment:

git push --mirror pushes all branches, commits, tags, and commit history from the local repository to the remote repository, while git push --all pushes all unpushed branches from the local repository to the remote repository, but does not include tags or commit history.