How to build Android-x86 using the LineageOS codebase as a starting point?

I already have a directory with the entire source code for LineageOS, which was initialized with:

repo init -u https://github.com/LineageOS/android.git -b lineage-15.1

After a couple builds, the directory is over 70GiB.

Now I would like to build Android-x86 (the LineageOS branch/port), and I'd like to know if there's a way to "rebase" the existing source code instead of re-downloading it all over again.

The Android-x86 code base is initialized with

repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b oreo-x86

I tried running this from the same directory but got as a result:

fatal: manifest 'default.xml' not available
fatal: remote github not defined in /media/Fast/Dev/android/lineage/.repo/manifests/default.xml

I checked that .repo/manifests/default.xml exists in the file system, and is identical to another one created by repo init to a new directory.

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