diff -r 850950e59b52 -r 150afe6becf6 mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Thu Jun 21 13:09:00 2007 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Thu Jun 21 13:09:01 2007 -0500
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
         try:
             repo = hg.repository(ui, path=path)
             ui = repo.ui
-            if not repo.local() and cmd not in commands.remoterepo.split():
+            if not repo.local():
                 raise util.Abort(_("repository '%s' is not local") % path)
         except hg.RepoError:
             if cmd not in commands.optionalrepo.split():