Johannes Schindelin wrote (2008-04-22 13:56 +0100):

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> With the --mirror mode, you can no longer discern clearly between
> local and remote branches.  This is basically what we had in the
> beginning, before the "separate remotes layout".

Hmm, to me it looks like --mirror is for mirroring remote repository and
hence the "+" makes sense in here too. It's like "I want to make my
repository a copy of that remote repository" hence the name 'mirror'.
It'll possibly overwrite local branches but in my way of thinking
mirroring implies that possibility. The 'git remote' manual says that
--mirror "only makes sense in bare repositories", so the manual seems to
guide towards not having local working directory nor changes.
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