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?

CodePudding user response：

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.