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- Clone the new Git repository: git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-foo.git 2. Add the already existing GitHub mirror as new remote: git remote add GitHub git@github.com:apache/commons-foo.git 3. Create the master branch: git checkout -b master 4. Add all commits from the mirrored trunk branch from the GitHub mirror to the master branch: git fetch github trunk && git merge github/trunk 5. Add all other branches and tags to your local repository 6. push everything to the new repository
Update pom and website
Ensure that the SCM references in the POM and on the website are updated as soon as possible after the Git repo goes live.
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