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If you have a private repository, and you want to copy it to another account, along with commit history etc you can:

  • Create a new repo newRepo
  • Create a tempFolder
  • git clone --mirror <old-repo> <tempFolder>
  • git push --mirror
  • git remote set-url --push origin <new-repo>
  • Delete the tempFolder
  • Pull the newRepo
  • Check that everything works
  • Done

Credits to Alkis

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