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How to copy a GitHub repo without forking

GitHub only lets you fork a repo once, if you want to make more than one copy of a project here’s how you can do it. Useful for starter code.

Create a new empty folder for your project and initialize git

 $ cd where-you-keep-your-projects
 $ mkdir your-project-name
 $ cd your-project-name
 $ git init

“Pull” the repo you want to copy:

 # git url is the same as the clone URL
 $ git pull git-url-of-the-repo-you-want-to-copy

Push your code to the new repository you just created (Push an existing repository from the command line)

 $ git remote add origin git-url-of-the-new-repo-you-created
 $ git branch -M main
 $ git push -u origin main

A simple guide