How to copy a repo to a new repo with GitHub and WITHOUT USING LINE COMMANDS?

[esimms999]

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I want to copy the main branch of a repo (without issues, history, any link back to the original repo) to a new repo. I have found many examples which make use of git line commands, and have managed to accomplish the copy in this manner. But, surely, there must be a way to do this all through the GitHub website! Please, no git commands, no GitHub DeskTop, no bash, etc. etc.

[davevad93]

Hi @esimms999 ,

In Github you can copy the contents of a repository into a new one, but with its commit history:

1. Click on Import repository

2. Add the URL of the repo you want to copy, your username and your Personal Access Token as password, otherwise the import will fail.

3. Name your repo, choose the visibility and click on Begin import`

The process will take a few minutes, once completed all the contents of the source repo will be imported into the target repos.