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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.