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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>,
	Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can't checkout branch
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:50:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5zaoltma.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zap8dqb.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:00:12 +0200")

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-07-14 16:59 ` Can't checkout branch Larry Martell
2020-07-14 18:17   ` Chris Torek
2020-07-14 19:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-14 20:29     ` Larry Martell
2020-07-15  7:00     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-15 14:50       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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