RE: How to remove invalid remote repository

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.