Subject: Re: Can't checkout branch

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:50:53 -0700

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> 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.