Local repos should ignore ALL remote functionality

[Smolations]

If creating a local repo with no remote, there are two pieces of remote functionality which come into play that should not; both happen to occur after a commit:

1. After committing, an "Aborting..." error message is shown. I think this has something to do with the fact that no remotes are found, so that function aborts. It should return an error code instead.
2. If the branch you are committing to happens to be in the protected list, you still receive the message "WARNING: Pushing to master is not allowed. Aborting..." after the local commit occurs. This message is superfluous.