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Working with Git from Existing Repo to New Repo
- git clone existing repo in IDE
- git clone https://github.com/org/repo.git
- make necessary changes in the files
- git remote -v
- it list all the remote urls in the local system IDE
- origin https://github.com/org/repo.git (fetch)
- origin https://github.com/org/repo.git (push)
- git rename existing origin url to new old-orign
- git remote rename origin old-origin
- git add new repo url to origin
- git remote add origin https://github.com/org/repo2.git
- verify origin urls
- git remote -v
- should get 4 urls 2 for old-origin(old repo) and 2 for (new repo) origin
- git reinitialize
- git init .
- Reinitialized existing Git repository in C:/repo/.git/
- git add all files
- commit the changes
- git remove .idea files
- removes already tracked files in git
- rm -r .idea
- this deletes all .idea files including the folder locally
- git push -u origin --all
- git remote remove old-origin
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