@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ describe("parseOriginUrlFromGitConfig", () => {
     ).toBe("https://github.com/acme/repo.git");
   });
 
+  it("reads settings on the remote header line", () => {
+    const upstream = '\n[remote "upstream"]\n\turl = https://github.com/other/source.git\n';
+    expect(
+      parseOriginUrlFromGitConfig(`[remote "origin"] url = [email protected]:a/b.git${upstream}`),
+    ).toBe("[email protected]:a/b.git");
+    expect(parseOriginUrlFromGitConfig("[remote.Origin][email protected]:a/b.git\n")).toBe(
+      "[email protected]:a/b.git",
+    );
+    expect(
+      parseOriginUrlFromGitConfig(
+        `[remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*\n\turl = [email protected]:a/b.git${upstream}`,
+      ),
+    ).toBe("[email protected]:a/b.git");
+  });
+
   it("falls back to the first remote when there is no origin", () => {
     const config = [
       '[remote "upstream"]',
 
@@ -214,15 +214,15 @@ export function parseOriginUrlFromGitConfig(configText: string): string | null {
   let firstRemoteUrl: string | null = null;
   const joined = configText.replace(/\\\r?\n[ \t]*/g, "");
   for (const rawLine of joined.split(/\r?\n/)) {
-    const line = rawLine.trim();
+    let line = rawLine.trim();
     if (line.length === 0 || line.startsWith("#") || line.startsWith(";")) continue;
-    // Git preserves case in quoted remote subsections but lowercases legacy dotted ones.
-    const header = /^\[\s*remote(?:\s+"([^"]+)"|\.([^\]\s]+))\s*\](?:\s*[#;].*)?$/i.exec(line);
+    // Git preserves case in quoted remote subsections but lowercases legacy dotted ones,
+    // and accepts the first setting on the section header's own line.
+    const header = /^\[\s*remote(?:\s+"([^"]+)"|\.([^\]\s]+))\s*\](.*)$/i.exec(line);
     if (header) {
       section = header[1] ?? header[2]?.toLowerCase() ?? null;
-      continue;
-    }
-    if (line.startsWith("[")) {
+      line = header[3]!.trim();
+    } else if (line.startsWith("[")) {
       section = null;
       continue;
     }