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This question is not about how to merge two git repos; that problem has already been discussed (keywords: "submodules", "subtree merging").

The question here is, how to merge two GitHub repos?

I wanted to preserve as many GitHub features/data from both GitHub repos as possible. Most importantly, I want to preserve issues and wikis from both GitHub repos.

How might I achieve that?

Info:

I have just learnt that GitHub wikis are git repos themselves (summary: git://github.com/you/proj.wiki), and I have successfully pushed changes to a wiki-repo of mine.

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  • Github is just a UI for that git repo, with extra sprinkles of good stuff like "issue-tracker" among others. The Github website doesn't offer this functionality yet. You'll have to manually do this. – kumarharsh Oct 05 '13 at 07:34

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Regarding issues, there is no native way to "import" them, you need to recreate them.

You have for instance a project like "github-issue-importer" which could be extended to fetch issues from one GitHub repo and import them in another.

This gist seems to import from one GitHub repo to another.

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