$state.target not working properly with child states.

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My version of UI-Router is: 1.0.19

Bug Report

Current Behavior:

When using $state.target to activate a child state I expect the onEnter hook to be triggered once. For some reason it is triggered 20 times and I am not able to reach that child state. This doesn't seem to be an issue if I use $state.go instead, but then I receive a superseded transition error.

You can see this if you change the only instance of $state.target to $state.go in the workflow state.

Even stranger when logging each $state every time that the onEnter hook is triggered it reports that I am on an empty state.

Expected Behavior:

Using $state.target on a child state triggers the onEnter hook once for the state I am transitioning to and takes me to that state successfully.

Link to Plunker or stackblitz that reproduces the issue:

https://codepen.io/codymikol/pen/RBeLzo?editors=1111

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