The first question you might ask is why you would want to copy something across a repository when you could easily Fork it.

And that is a very valid question. There are a few reasons why you might want to do this. Although I wanted to copy a large amount of the repository, including branches and tags, I didn't want everything.

Forks are publicly visible on GitHub, which might not be ideal if you want to keep your work entirely separate or private.

I had an original personal project that I then used for a work thing. I wanted to keep some of the bug fixes I'd found but remove some of the specific work items I'd added and be able to go down my original path for the project.

I wanted them to fully separate from each other.

Category: Git.

Duplicating a Github repository without forking it