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+# gitea-mirror-gitea
+Go 'script' to mirror one Gitea instance repositories to another
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+Original code forked from techknowlogick's gist
+https://gist.github.com/techknowlogick/c2367e03baff9f16b3c5cc9d9a5d13ca
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