title: What's the difference between cloning and copying a git repo?
body: <p>The <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2605017/difference-between-cloning-and-copying-in-mercurial">same question exists for mercurial</a>, and I'm wondering how this applies to git? In particular, I'm interested in cases where there are two local repos, and copying between servers using rsync or such.</p>
  
  <p>Also, if the original repo is itself cloned from, say gitorious, and I copy it, then gitorious will still exist as a remote (tracked by the master branch) in the copy, right? Does this happen if the copy is cloned instead?</p>