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##Merge One Repository into Another

There may be that odd scenario that you want to move code from one repository into another. I.e. moving a repo from SourceForge into GitHub, you can follow the following process.

This assume you've already created a project on GitHub

SourceForge Repository: http://git.code.sf.net/p/myUser/myProject

GitHub Repostiory: https://github.com/myUser/myProject

$ git clone https://github.com/myUser/myProject.git
$ git remote add other http://git.code.sf.net/p/myUser/myProject.git
$ git fetch other
$ git checkout -b other-master other/master
$ git checkout master
$ git merge other-master
$ git add -A
$ git commit -am "Merged from old repo"
$ git push -u origin master

Now you're done the origin now has the same code base including history as other