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git clone vs copy paste, what's the difference?

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note: the git clone i mean is the git clone without any option, the one which is performed by doing "git clone /C:/my_origin_folder"

Solution

  • This answer of mine regarding backup should give you some answer on clone vs copy: Moving a git repo to a second computer?

    Main differences:

    1. When you clone, you get remote origin setup pointing to original repo, so that you can push to it.
    2. You don't get hooks and reflog ( and also old objects) and other remotes when you clone but you do when you copy

    Note that when you clone with a folder path, the differences change subtly, as the objects and refs are usually just copied / hardlinked ( equivalent of --local which is the default with local folder paths)