How do I duplicate a gist?

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I have a gist which is managed by an IDE extension. Now I want to have two different setups, starting with the current setup as base. How do I duplicate my existing gist? There doesn't seem to be any relevant option on GitHub.

aksh1618 · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-05 13:26:11Z

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Gists are basically git repositories with all files at root directory. Unfortunately there is no way to easily duplicate a gist through Github UI. We need to go through these steps:

Create the destination gist: Add random stuff as part of it, we just need a gist id.

Clone source gist & force push to destination gist:

cd /tmp
git clone [email protected]:<source-gist-id>.git source-gist
cd source-gist
git push --force [email protected]:<destination-gist-id>.git

answered Jul 5, 2020 at 13:26

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