From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:50:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Can't checkout branch
Message-ID: <xmqq5zaoltma.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <875zap8dqb.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jul 14 2020, Chris Torek wrote:
>
>> To work around this in all versions of Git, you can just be
>> more explicit.  For instance:
>>
>>     git checkout deploy --
>>
>> forces Git to treat it as a branch name.
>
> For recent versions of git, you can also use `git switch deploy'.

Yes, that is the best piece of advice in the thread so far.

Thanks.