Your Git Mirror Is a Recovery Tool Only If You Test the Failure Path
A Git mirror can make a team feel safer than it really is. The command succeeds, another remote exists, and everyone assumes the repository can be recovered if GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or an internal server goes unavailable.
Then the outage happens and the questions get specific. Does the destination have every branch and tag? Did Git LFS content come across or only pointer files? Can CI authenticate to the second remote? Did the mirror copy a bad force push? Who is allowed to promote the destination when the primary provider is locked?
That is the difference between a copy and a recovery plan.
Who this problem affects
This matters most for teams that cannot pause work every time a Git provider has trouble: product teams with release windows, platform teams managing infrastructure repositories, agencies supporting multiple clients, and organizations that keep compliance-sensitive code in Git.
It also matters during migrations....
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