I haven't used Github Desktop, but if it does not like multiple remotes, I would drop it, pronto. I say that because early on, I felt I "got" git only after I figured out how to use multiple remotes. I feel multiple remotes are fundamental to the design of git, being a "distributed" source control system.
On Monday, 3 October 2016 05:31:18 UTC+1, Tony Kelman wrote: > > The conclusion I'd take out of that is not to use GitHub Desktop. It tries > to hide too many important things like this from you. As far as git GUIs > go, try SourceTree, it has a much more direct mapping between command line > operations and GUI buttons.