How to overwrite a git repository(including all branches) to another git repository

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I have two git repos: orginal(with master and some feature branches) and new(having just the master branch as it is created new). I want to copy everything from original (all the branches and history) to new.

I have followed this resource and so far am able to copy all the branches except the master branch to the new repo.

Here is what I have tried from original repo:

  1. Created local copies of branches:

    git branch -a
   * master
   remotes/origin/feature1
   remotes/origin/feature2
   remotes/origin/master

git checkout -b feature1 origin/feature1
git checkout -b feature2 origin/feature2

  2. Added a new remote(new-origin):

    git remote add new-origin <url-of-new-repo>

  3. Pushing all the branches to new remote:

    git push --all new-origin

This has correctly created two feature branches on new repo, but didn't overwrite the master. This could happen since master exists for both the repos. Is there a way to overwrite the master branch from another repository?

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1 Answers

You are looking for the git branch command. Run this on the new repo after you fetched all branches from the original:

git branch --force master origin/master

This forces the local master branch to point to the same commit as the remote master branch.

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