Default Branch does not Update

Description

Upon updating the default branch in my private GitHub repo, Desktop does not update. The old branch is still marked as default and used by default for new branches.

Version

• GitHub Desktop: 1.4.0

• Operating system: macOS High Sierra V 10.13.6

Steps to Reproduce

1. Have a private GitHub repo with a default branch dev
2. Create another branch named develop
3. Change the settings of the branch such that develop is the default.
4. Go back to GitHub Desktop, restart, do whatever, and observe that the default branch remains dev

Expected Behavior

On the next fetch or at least upon restarting the app, the default branch would update accordingly to develop

Actual Behavior

The default branch remains the previous default branch.

Additional Information

Logs

It happened one of these days based off history. I don’t see anything relating to default, but maybe they’ll be useful.

2018-09-13.desktop.production.log 2018-09-14.desktop.production.log

[cd88]

@Timawg Click the Current Repository dropdown in the top-left corner and select the already selected repo to reload it, which will re-sync the default branch.

[RaddadZ]

if anyone still facing this problem:

• try running this command in your repo folder: git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
• if you get the old default branch name, then go to <your repo folder>/.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD and change its value to your real default branch
• restart Github Desktop, that’s it! it should recognize the real default branch in creating, rebase, and everywhere else.