Background: I must overwrite my repository to switch to
git lfs. Before doing so, I want to create a backup of the current state. For now I just created a local copy of the repository and a branch in the migrated repository, that holds the non-lfs state.
What is the best way, to create a backup/copy of the current state of a project? Is it plausible to just fork the project or would that have some negative side-effects?
And how would forking compare to just create a new repository and push the current state?