Default branch is stuck on a detached HEAD

Describe the bug

My GH Desktop client (on MacOS) has gotten into a weird state where the default branch is a detached HEAD. The default branch has been set to heads/main when it should be main, and when I select heads/main it says I’m on a detached HEAD. When running git status the output is HEAD detached at refs/heads/main. Using git through the CLI I can checkout the main branch, but in GH Desktop I cannot see the main branch under my list of branches unless I specifically check it out in the command line.

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the client, signing in and signing out, deleting the repo from the client then re-adding it, and setting the global git config default branch. Nothing has worked so far.

Version & OS

Version 2.9.4 (x64) on MacOS

Steps to reproduce the behavior

I do not know what happened to get into this state.

Expected behavior

The default branch of the repository should be set to main, as it is in the GitHub repo settings

Actual behavior

The default branch of the repository is set to heads/main which is a non-existent branch. Clicking on this “default” says I’m on a detached HEAD. Trying to branch off of this default tells me I’m currently checking out a detached HEAD

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Additional context

No additional context.

[noellered]

Nope this was resolved

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 8:23 AM Steve Ward @.***> wrote:

@noellered https://github.com/noellered following up here – is this still an issue you are experiencing in GitHub Desktop?

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[steveward]

Glad to hear things are working again.