title: What is the difference between the laravel homestead box and the homestead repo?
body: <p>From the official docs, "Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine."</p>
  
  <p>I installed vagrant, and downloaded the box, great. But then, later on,
  in <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/homestead#configuring-homestead" rel="nofollow">the docs</a>, I read I have to install "Homestead" by cloning the repo <a href="https://github.com/laravel/homestead/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laravel/homestead/</a></p>
  
  <p>I find that really confusing, because I thought Homestead was the virtual box I already downloaded. What is the difference between the laravel homestead box and the homestead repo? There are no docs specifically for the github repo.</p>