Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.