git - Replace GitHub repo while preserving issues, wiki, etc

Question

I have a repo on GitHub with a lot of issues there. I want to replace the entire code base of that repo with a new one but I want to keep all the previous information.

What's the best way of doing that without messing up the code nor GitHub?

Answer 1

• cd into "new" repository
• git remote add origin git@github.com:myusername/myrepository (replacing myusername & myrepository accordingly)
• git push --force origin master
• Possibly delete other remote branches and push new ones.

This will forcefully replace everything in the remote repository with what you have locally. Be very careful, there is no going back.