Why does act need remote repo "origin" or --remote-name ?

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What in a local action run triggers needing to check the remote?

Start with git init

Create your thing with a workflow and when running with act you will see unable to get git repo. That doesn't make sense or is intuaitive as to why the need for github.com.

I have worked around this by setting a remote to the repo I just init.

Example:

[remote "origin"]
url = /some/path/to/.git/
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*