I reckon most folks have made a git oopsie and needed to re-clone a repo at least once in their career.

Having a “local remote” would be an awfully quick way to do that, especially in situations with no/low network connection or a flakey upstream server.

> I reckon most folks have made a git oopsie and needed to re-clone a repo at least once in their career.

And I recon this is the default workflow for most people most of the time.