It's so easy to duplicate a github repository including every commits and branches.
1) Create a new repo in github using UI/command as usual. This will be the target repo where duplicate of source repo to be pasted.
2) Open a command prompt and Clone the source/existing repo using the command:
git clone --bare https://sourceRepoURL
A new folder will be created containing some files from source repo.
3) Move to that folder:
cd sourceRepoFolder
4) Push these files into the target repo using command:
git push --mirror https://targetRepoURL
That's it. Thank you.
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