Assuming the following repo:

cd /tmp
mkdir nodegit-test
cd nodegit-test
git init .
touch 'test'
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin git@github.com:example/example.git

Running repo.getRemotes(function(err, remotes) will result on [1] 39497 abort node test.js with the following code:

git = require('nodegit')

git.Repo.open('/tmp/nodegit-test/.git', function(err, repo){
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    process.exit(1);
  }

  repo.getRemotes(function(err, remotes){
    // the following will never get called
    console.log(err)
    console.log(remotes)
  });
});

This is on OSX 10.9.4, and git --version = 2.0.1.

I'm hoping it's me doing something the wrong way, but if the repo has no remotes, then an empty array is returned without any problems.