From: Matt Seitz <seitz@neopathnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:57:08 GMT
Subject: RE: How to remove invalid remote repository
Message-ID: <8A00BB77B01133479F4A56D932A113220290715F@EX-401.mail.navisite.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706051308090.4921@woody.linux-foundation.org>

From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org] 
> Well, this is because you apparently didn't call the remote 
> "origin", but something else. So when you do
> 
> 	git fetch
> 
> without giving any remote name at all, git will *default* to 
> using "origin" as a remote,

Ah, I see now.  I misread that section of the "Git User's Manual".
Using 

git fetch root-etc

worked fine.

Sorry to have bothered everyone with my error.