Duplicating a repository

Note

If you have a project hosted on another Git-based hosting service, you can automatically import your project to using the Importer tool. For more information, see About Importer.

Before you can push the original repository to your new copy, or mirror, of the repository, you must create the new repository on .com. In these examples, exampleuser/new-repository or exampleuser/mirrored are the mirrors.

Open TerminalTerminalGit Bash.

Create a bare clone of the repository.

git clone --bare https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/OLD-REPOSITORY.git

Mirror-push to the new repository.

cd OLD-REPOSITORY
git push --mirror https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/NEW-REPOSITORY.git

Remove the temporary local repository you created earlier.
```
cd ..
rm -rf OLD-REPOSITORY
```

Open TerminalTerminalGit Bash.
Create a bare clone of the repository. Replace the example username with the name of the person or organization who owns the repository, and replace the example repository name with the name of the repository you'd like to duplicate.
```
git clone --bare https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/OLD-REPOSITORY.git
```
Navigate to the repository you just cloned.
```
cd OLD-REPOSITORY
```
Pull in the repository's Git Large File Storage objects.
```
git lfs fetch --all
```

Mirror-push to the new repository.

git push --mirror https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/NEW-REPOSITORY.git

Push the repository's Git Large File Storage objects to your mirror.
```
git lfs push --all https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/NEW-REPOSITORY.git
```
Remove the temporary local repository you created earlier.
```
cd ..
rm -rf OLD-REPOSITORY
```

If you want to mirror a repository in another location, including getting updates from the original, you can clone a mirror and periodically push the changes.

Open TerminalTerminalGit Bash.

Create a bare mirrored clone of the repository.

git clone --mirror https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/REPOSITORY-TO-MIRROR.git

Set the push location to your mirror.
```
cd REPOSITORY-TO-MIRROR
git remote set-url --push origin https://.com/EXAMPLE-USER/MIRRORED
```
As with a bare clone, a mirrored clone includes all remote branches and tags, but all local references will be overwritten each time you fetch, so it will always be the same as the original repository. Setting the URL for pushes simplifies pushing to your mirror.
To update your mirror, fetch updates and push.
```
git fetch -p origin
git push --mirror
```

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