diff --git a/internal/core/claim/calls_test.go b/internal/core/claim/calls_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b773611c46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/core/claim/calls_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package claim
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// defaultLookups counts the times the traced commands resolved origin's
+// default branch: originDefault traces its symbolic-ref once per resolution.
+func defaultLookups(l *gitLog) int {
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	n := 0
+	for _, c := range l.cmds {
+		if c[0] == "symbolic-ref" && strings.HasSuffix(c[len(c)-1], "/HEAD") {
+			n++
+		}
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// TestAReservationResolvesTheDefaultBranchOnceEachSideOfItsFetch
+// (iss-2610180545134593): a reservation where origin holds no other names
+// origin's default branch twice: once before its fetch, to name the branch the
+// fetch brings in, and once after it, in judge, for the default branch's
+// records. A fetch can create or move origin/HEAD, so the name is never
+// carried across one. Each lookup is two git processes; judge used to make
+// two of its own, so this reservation made three. Where origin holds other
+// reservations, the crowding check's view names the branch once more, after
+// the same fetch, as a view does (TestAViewResolvesTheDefaultBranchOnce).
+func TestAReservationResolvesTheDefaultBranchOnceEachSideOfItsFetch(t *testing.T) {
+	w := newWorld(t)
+	p := w.clone("1234+octo@users.noreply.github.com", "")
+	log := traced(t)
+	if _, err := p.reserve("iss-1", "commands"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if n := defaultLookups(log); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("a reservation with no other on origin resolved origin's default branch %d times; want 2, once each side of its fetch", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestAViewResolvesTheDefaultBranchOnce: a view fetches nothing, so it names
+// origin's default branch once, for the records it reads there and the
+// generated files it recognises; it used to name it once for each.
+func TestAViewResolvesTheDefaultBranchOnce(t *testing.T) {
+	w := newWorld(t)
+	p := w.clone("1234+octo@users.noreply.github.com", "")
+	if _, err := p.reserve("iss-1", "commands"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	log := traced(t)
+	if _, err := View(p.dir, w.clock()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if n := defaultLookups(log); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("one view resolved origin's default branch %d times; want 1", n)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/core/claim/generated.go b/internal/core/claim/generated.go
index 954d43a02c..7fef7a7f08 100644
--- a/internal/core/claim/generated.go
+++ b/internal/core/claim/generated.go
@@ -56,7 +56,13 @@ func (g Generated) Is(p string) bool {
 // root .gitattributes); otherwise the set is empty and the reason says why
 // generated files were not recognised.
 func GeneratedFiles(root string) (Generated, string) {
-	ref := originDefault(root)
+	return generatedFilesAt(root, originDefault(root))
+}
+
+// generatedFilesAt is GeneratedFiles read from ref, origin's default branch as
+// the caller resolved it ("" for none), so an operation that has named the
+// branch once reads it under that one name.
+func generatedFilesAt(root, ref string) (Generated, string) {
 	if ref == "" {
 		return Generated{}, ""
 	}
diff --git a/internal/core/claim/handback.go b/internal/core/claim/handback.go
index c35739e0c4..7324190a55 100644
--- a/internal/core/claim/handback.go
+++ b/internal/core/claim/handback.go
@@ -239,11 +239,10 @@ func validBlob(s string) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
-// defaultRecords is every record origin's default branch holds as last
-// fetched, by id, each with its folders and blobs; nil when this checkout
-// names no default branch of origin.
-func defaultRecords(root string) (map[string][]peers.RecordAt, error) {
-	ref := originDefault(root)
+// defaultRecords is every record origin's default branch, ref as the caller
+// resolved it, holds as last fetched, by id, each with its folders and blobs;
+// nil when ref is "", where this checkout names no default branch of origin.
+func defaultRecords(root, ref string) (map[string][]peers.RecordAt, error) {
 	if ref == "" {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
diff --git a/internal/core/claim/remote.go b/internal/core/claim/remote.go
index 816d33411e..20eaaa60b3 100644
--- a/internal/core/claim/remote.go
+++ b/internal/core/claim/remote.go
@@ -604,13 +604,16 @@ func judge(p *prepared, tree string) (judged, error) {
 		// no one edited it since, and a person's edit this copy has not
 		// fetched reads as unchanged until it is (dcn-2610161412283450,
 		// refined by dcn-2610161837009957). One with no blob read stands.
-		recs, err := defaultRecords(p.root)
+		// One name for the default branch, resolved after the act's fetch,
+		// which can create or move origin/HEAD (iss-2610180545134593).
+		ref := originDefault(p.root)
+		recs, err := defaultRecords(p.root, ref)
 		if err != nil && p.derivedGap == "" {
 			return judged{}, refuse("could not read whether %s is finished on the default branch: %s; %s",
 				p.id, redacted(err), noReservation)
 		}
 		switch {
-		case originDefault(p.root) == "":
+		case ref == "":
 			j.blobUnread = "this checkout names no default branch of " + Remote
 		case err != nil:
 			j.blobUnread = p.derivedGap + "; " + redacted(err)
diff --git a/internal/core/claim/view.go b/internal/core/claim/view.go
index 16af69e5b6..c4c88c0a3a 100644
--- a/internal/core/claim/view.go
+++ b/internal/core/claim/view.go
@@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ func viewOf(root string, now time.Time, derive bool, only func(subject string) b
 	// subjects alone, which no record there ends.
 	var records map[string][]peers.RecordAt
 	anyRecord := slices.ContainsFunc(refs, func(ref string) bool { return !isRelease(strings.TrimPrefix(ref, TrackingPrefix)) })
-	if ref := originDefault(root); derive && anyRecord && ref != "" {
+	// One name for origin's default branch per view (iss-2610180545134593): a
+	// view fetches nothing, so the name cannot move under it.
+	defaultRef := originDefault(root)
+	if ref := defaultRef; derive && anyRecord && ref != "" {
 		if records, err = peers.RecordsAt(root, ref); err != nil {
 			return snap, fmt.Errorf("reading %s: %s", gitutil.ShortRef(ref), redacted(err))
 		}
@@ -228,7 +231,7 @@ func viewOf(root string, now time.Time, derive bool, only func(subject string) b
 	// origin's default branch recognises none.
 	if slices.ContainsFunc(snap.Reservations, func(r Reservation) bool { return r.State == StateLive && len(r.Footprint) > 0 }) {
 		if derive {
-			snap.Generated, snap.GeneratedUnread = GeneratedFiles(root)
+			snap.Generated, snap.GeneratedUnread = generatedFilesAt(root, defaultRef)
 		} else {
 			snap.GeneratedUnread = "origin's default branch could not be read when the reservations were fetched"
 		}