Git workflow to fork a local repository?

Question

What's the git equivalent of the following svn workflow:

1) export foo

2) import bar

Is it the following?

1) checkout master

2) tag foo

3) branch bar

Answer 1

I think you might be a bit confused, you don't fork local repositories, you branch them.

git branch [branch]
git checkout [branch]

I guess you could push to a remote repo and then "fork" it there, but forks are really just copies. Do a pull on an empty repo and boom, copy.

Answer 2

It's simply creating a new repository with git init and then "git pull" the right branch from the other repository. You end up with a new repository containing only the one branch.