How to create a new repository which is a clone of another repository?

Question

I have a project "MyfirstProject" in github. Now I am making another project "SecondProject" by cloning "MyfirstProject" since core codes will be the same.

Whenever I updates in "MYfirstProject" I just pull for updates.

Now I want to make a repository for this "SecondProject" in github since I have to work in different computers and it will have different codes from "MYfirstProject".

I don't think branching out is right thing to do since I will never merge them.

How can I do?

Do I need to push to a new repository? Won't it affect pulls from "MyfirstProject"?

What do you do?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There's probably several ways to do this, including a smarter one, but this is how I would do this:

1. Make a new repo on Github called SecondProject.
2. Locally clone your MyfirstProject, either from disk or from Github. Then use git pull on the branches you need to move to the second repo.
3. git remote set-url origin [email protected]:yourname/SecondProject.git
4. Push it.

Note that the clone retains a shared history with MyfirstProject, which is useful if you change your mind about the "never merge" bit.