Unable to clone Gists in Desktop

Description

We have this nifty little button on the top of Gists just like we do for repositories:

However clicking that button does not clone the Gist as expected.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.1 OS version: macOS 10.12.6

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to any Gist, like: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
2. Click the “Download to Desktop” button that links to x-github-client://openRepo/https://gist.github.com/2841832

Expected behavior: The Gist should be cloned to my Desktop app. Actual behavior:

• A user reported that they were taken to desktop.github.com after clicking that button, even though they have Desktop installed.
• I was unable to reproduce that ☝️ but got an error every time:

Note that it doesn’t exist, because it won’t let me clone it. It’s a misleading error message in this case a well.

Reproduces how often: Every time for me.

Logs

2017-09-26T19:57:56.787Z - warn: [ui] Open Repository from URL failed, did not find repository: https://gist.github.com/2841832.git - payload: {"name":"open-repository-from-url","url":"https://gist.github.com/2841832.git"}

[billygriffin]

I’m going to roll this into #2973 because we know the experience for managing Gists in Desktop isn’t particularly good in a variety of ways, but it’s not something we’ve been able to prioritize and that’ll get looked at with the remainder of the future proposals still outstanding.

[theconsultant]

Changing the default local name to something meaningful worked for me as well.

@shiftkey I don’t know if it can be done or not… but maybe the error message could link to here, or even just tell folks the workaround ‘for now’ 😉