What is the proper git workflow for basing a project off a 'seed' repo?

Question

As an example: suppose you have a personal project like Angular Seed (which is a starting point for an Angular project https://github.com/angular/angular-seed).

Now

Answer 1

I found mirroring the boilerplate according to this article the only way to work for me:

Clone boilerplate and create new project:

git clone --mirror https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate.git
cd react-boilerplate.git
git remote set-url --push origin https://github.com/gitUser/newProject

Update the new project with changes from the boilerplate:

cd react-boilerplate.git
git fetch -p origin
git push --mirror