Desktop Holds on to "Dead" Repositories

[say25]

Description

Desktop Holds on to "Dead" Repositories that either:

1. Don't exist on remote
2. Have been moved to a new remote

Version

• GitHub Desktop: 1.7.0-beta7
• Operating system: All

Steps to Reproduce

1. Checkout a repository.
2. Delete or move that repository's remote
3. Do misc git operations on another checked out repository in Desktop

Expected Behavior

1. Desktop alerts me in some way (maybe in the Repo switcher with a new icon) that these repositories are in a bad state.
2. Desktop does NOT spend any time trying to do background operations on "dead"/"broken" repositories.

Actual Behavior

Desktop tried to background fetch all these repositories in the background.

[billygriffin]

Thanks @say25! I was able to reproduce this behavior and agree that people would likely expect some indication that the remote is no longer available (assuming it was previously). I'd like to get additional feedback on if/how this has bitten people before we decide to prioritize it, so anyone else who has experienced this, please comment in this thread so we can understand what occurred.