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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'.

Andreas.

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