I suspect many who always use git remotely don't know that you can easily work with local repositories as well using the file protocol, git clone file:///path/

I suspect many who always use git remotely don't know that you can easily work with local repositories as well using the file protocol, git clone file:///path/to/repository will create a clone of the repository at the path. I used that all the time when I had to move private repositories back and forth from work, without ssh access.