Walter Bright wrote: > Why would "git clone" even exist if copying the directory works? As Ilari said, it works remotely. It’s even faster than just copying the directory (since it has to do less reading), and it only copies the repository, not the work tree or .git/config, which may or may not be what you want. More importantly, the reason I mentioned it was this: if you clone to make your first backup, you are more likely (when appropriate) to use "git fetch" instead of rsync to update the backup afterwards. And for that operation, "git fetch" is much more efficient. Anyway, feel free to ignore this advice. "cp -a" works fine already and is sometimes just the right thing to do. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html