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cannot checkout a ref which exists on multiple remotes

See original GitHub issue

When I try to switch branches on my forked repo, i get an error message for each attempt.

install.ts:23 `git -c credential.helper= checkout --progress gh-pages --` exited with an unexpected code: 128. fatal: invalid reference: gh-pages

Same result no matter if it’s upstream/branch-name or origin/branch-name.

Cloned repo is: https://github.com/tierninho/map.git

Also, perhaps we should tweak the error message to something a little more understandable?

tested in 1.0.9-beta0, mac

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METALMAN01commented, Jan 8, 2018

SORRY FOR BOTHERING U WITH MY PROBLEMS I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU GET IT ALL

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:28 AM, William Shepherd notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #3281 https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/3281 via #3624 https://github.com/desktop/desktop/pull/3624.

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shiftkeycommented, Nov 21, 2017

@NickVirtru thanks, that helps greatly!

EDIT: the boring details here is that there’s a origin/508-final and a upstream/508-final and we don’t seem to distinguish correctly on checkout, so Git will throw up it’s arms in confusion

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