title: git workflow - using one repo as the basis for another
body: <p>I've forked the <a href="http://paulirish.com/2010/announcing-html5-boilerplate/">Paul Irish</a>'s <a href="http://html5boilerplate.com/">HTML5 boilerplate</a> on <a href="https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate">github</a> so I can have my own version which better suits my needs. If I start every new web project with this boilerplate, what's the best way to get that code into a new repo? As far as I can see I've got two options:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Clone the repo. I don't just want to clone it, because I'm not really making changes to the boilerplate - I'm just using it as a launching-off point for a new website. Also, if I clone from github then the boilerplate repo will be setup as my remote for the new site.</p></li>
  <li><p>Copy-paste the code into a new directory and start a fresh git repo there. This feels wrong somehow.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to handle this?</p>