Another cool thing that I believe git does in these situations is that it hard-links the blobs in the .git folder if you do a local clone. It makes sense: the b

Another cool thing that I believe git does in these situations is that it hard-links the blobs in the .git folder if you do a local clone. It makes sense: the blobs are immutable and content-addressed, no need to store two copies! Just have two links to the same file system object, save a bunch of disk space.