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privateFork.sh
function private_clone() {
sourceRepo=$2
destOrg=$1
repoName=$(echo $sourceRepo | cut -d/ -f 2)
destRepo=$(echo $destOrg/$repoName)
gh repo create -y --private $destRepo
git clone --bare [email protected]:$sourceRepo\.git
cd $repoName\.git
git push --mirror [email protected]:$destRepo
cd ..; rm -rf $repoName\.git;
}
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vmiheer commented Nov 16, 2020

Use as:

$ private_clone <destOrg> <sourceRepo>
# sourceRepo looks like: cli/cli

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