Self-Review Checklist: - [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability - [ ] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments N/A - [x] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist) - [ ] Tests cover the new/changed behavior - [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable Remote `HEAD` refs such as `origin/HEAD` and `upstream/HEAD` are symbolic refs that point to a remote's default branch. These refs can appear in the branch picker, but selecting them shows this error prompt:  This happens because the local branch name is directly derived from the selected ref, resulting in an attempted checkout of a local branch named `HEAD`. This change follows up on feedback from #57588, which just filtered remote `HEAD` refs out of the branch picker to prevent the error prompt. As mentioned in [this comment](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/57588#issuecomment-4533477336), I agree that the preferred behaviour should be to instead allow checking them out - useful for repos with multiple remotes such as an upstream. For example, if `refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` points to `refs/remotes/origin/main`, selecting `origin/HEAD` now behaves like selecting `origin/main`, switching to the corresponding local `main` branch instead of trying to create or check out a branch named `HEAD`. This does not fetch or pull from the remote; it uses the locally known remote refs. Release Notes: - Fixed selecting remote HEAD refs from the branch picker --------- Co-authored-by: Smit Barmase <heysmitbarmase@gmail.com>
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