"Forking" a Github Repo Without Forking It

This is also known as “mirroring” a repository.

Step by step process

Open your terminal.
Create a bare clone of the repo in your local machine.
```
 git clone --bare https://github.com/username/old-repo-name.git
```
Notice the --bare parameter.
Go to the newly cloned directory.
```
 cd old-repo-name
```
Mirror-push to the new repository[^before doing this make sure that you’ve already created the new repository on GitHub].
```
 git push --mirror https://github.com/username/new-repo-name.git
```
Remove the local repository created earlier.
```
 cd ..
 rm -rf old-repo-name
```