Git with no remote named origin

Question

I have seen the related question Cannot remove remote origin but it asks about adding a new origin (ie change the url of origin). However I would like to not have any remote named 'origin'.

If I have a remote named origin and run git remote remove origin it seem to replace that with an empty origin. git remote -v lists origin without url and it can't be removed.

Since git is distributed it would make sense to me to be able to have remote A and B none of them named origin. But a git fetch --all in this scenario will still complain that it can't fetch from that empty origin that I can't remove.

In summary: Is it possible to remove the origin remote completely?

Answer 1

Run:

git config --show-origin --get-regexp ^remote

to see which origin.* entries are defined in which config files. My guess is that you have defined remote.origin in your $HOME/.gitconfig file.