diff --git a/Remote/Git.hs b/Remote/Git.hs
index 0af5a3eb98..48f2422cd8 100644
--- a/Remote/Git.hs
+++ b/Remote/Git.hs
@@ -407,10 +407,9 @@ inAnnex' repo rmt st@(State connpool duc _ _ _) key
   where
 	checkhttp = do
 		gc <- Annex.getGitConfig
-		ifM (Url.withUrlOptionsPromptingCreds $ \uo -> anyM (\u -> Url.checkBoth u (fromKey keySize key) uo) (keyUrls gc repo rmt key))
-			( return True
-			, giveup "not found"
-			)
+		Url.withUrlOptionsPromptingCreds $ \uo -> 
+			anyM (\u -> Url.checkBoth u (fromKey keySize key) uo)
+				(keyUrls gc repo rmt key)
 	checkremote = P2PHelper.checkpresent (Ssh.runProto rmt connpool (cantCheck rmt)) key
 	checklocal = ifM duc
 		( guardUsable repo (cantCheck repo) $
diff --git a/doc/bugs/GIN_is_not_recognized_as_a_git-annex_enabled_repos/comment_4_f97de485f97d8016a5ab4e276799d230._comment b/doc/bugs/GIN_is_not_recognized_as_a_git-annex_enabled_repos/comment_4_f97de485f97d8016a5ab4e276799d230._comment
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2d44cd9cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/bugs/GIN_is_not_recognized_as_a_git-annex_enabled_repos/comment_4_f97de485f97d8016a5ab4e276799d230._comment
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 4"""
+ date="2022-08-08T15:27:21Z"
+ content="""
+Well, that is a different problem than the problem you reported, isn't it?
+You seem to have shown that git-annex does in fact recognize your GIN
+remote as a git-annex repo.
+
+git-annex does not support uploading files to a git repo on GIN using http.
+
+The datalad documentation says to add a remote using the ssh url of the GIN
+repository, which git-annex can store files on. See 
+<http://handbook.datalad.org/en/0.13_a/basics/101-139-gin.html#publishing-your-dataset-to-gin>
+
+Without using datalad, the equivilant commands would be something like:
+
+	git remote add gin git@gin.g-node.org:/ivis-mizuguchi/https.git
+	git-annex copy --to gin
+
+---
+
+So this leaves the question of why git-annex tries to do a http request
+when you ask it to copy the content to the http repo. That http request
+failing is what results in the "(not found)" message.
+
+Looks like that is due to `git-annex copy` checking to see if the content
+exists on the remote. It does not. So it ought to try to send it,
+which would fail with a better "copying to non-ssh repo not supported" error message.
+However, intstead it displays the error.
+
+I've fixed this bug, and now it fails with this message:
+
+	copy test3.txt (to origin...) 
+	  copying to non-ssh repo not supported
+"""]]