diff -r 48c94bffdb28 -r c7a81e3ae80f mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Thu Jun 21 11:54:13 2007 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Thu Jun 21 11:54:16 2007 -0500
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
         try:
             repo = hg.repository(ui, path=path)
             ui = repo.ui
-            if not repo.local():
+            if not repo.local() and cmd not in commands.remoterepo.split():
                 raise util.Abort(_("repository '%s' is not local") % path)
         except hg.RepoError:
             if cmd not in commands.optionalrepo.split():