4 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e9dbca7d8..2f9791678 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
 	tags/v1.0.0
 
 Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
-longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your
 git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
 be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
diff --git a/builtin-ls-remote.c b/builtin-ls-remote.c
index 78a88f747..b5bad0c18 100644
--- a/builtin-ls-remote.c
+++ b/builtin-ls-remote.c
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			pattern[j - i] = p;
 		}
 	}
-	remote = nongit ? NULL : remote_get(dest);
-	if (remote && !remote->url_nr)
+	remote = remote_get(dest);
+	if (!remote->url_nr)
 		die("remote %s has no configured URL", dest);
-	transport = transport_get(remote, remote ? remote->url[0] : dest);
+	transport = transport_get(remote, remote->url[0]);
 	if (uploadpack != NULL)
 		transport_set_option(transport, TRANS_OPT_UPLOADPACK, uploadpack);
 
diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
index 2faf1c634..ebdab3603 100644
--- a/remote-curl.c
+++ b/remote-curl.c
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 	const char *url;
 	struct walker *walker = NULL;
+	int nongit;
 
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
-	setup_git_directory();
+	setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
 	if (argc < 2) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Remote needed\n");
 		return 1;
@@ -103,6 +104,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			break;
 		if (!prefixcmp(buf.buf, "fetch ")) {
 			char *obj = buf.buf + strlen("fetch ");
+			if (nongit)
+				die("Fetch attempted without a local repo");
 			if (!walker)
 				walker = get_http_walker(url, remote);
 			walker->get_all = 1;
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 644a30a0b..298dc46ec 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -812,6 +812,9 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
 {
 	struct transport *ret = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*ret));
 
+	if (!remote)
+		die("No remote provided to transport_get()");
+
 	ret->remote = remote;
 	ret->url = url;
 
@@ -849,10 +852,10 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
 		data->thin = 1;
 		data->conn = NULL;
 		data->uploadpack = "git-upload-pack";
-		if (remote && remote->uploadpack)
+		if (remote->uploadpack)
 			data->uploadpack = remote->uploadpack;
 		data->receivepack = "git-receive-pack";
-		if (remote && remote->receivepack)
+		if (remote->receivepack)
 			data->receivepack = remote->receivepack;
 	}