According to its documentation,Repo.remote() is supposed to raise aValueError is the specified remote name does not match an existing remote on the repository.

However, from the code it seems that its not the case:

def remote(self, name='origin'):    """:return: Remote with the specified name    :raise ValueError:  if no remote with such a name exists"""    return Remote(self, name)

See the__init__ implementation forRemote:

class Remote(LazyMixin, Iterable):    def __init__(self, repo, name):        self.repo = repo        self.name = name        if os.name == 'nt':             dir(self)

The actual code just create aRemote instance which fails later on whenever one of its method is called.

This is likely not the expected behavior and I would assume the documation to be more sensible that the current implementation.