I had a recent situation where someone had created a branch called `something/some-reason` and I had a branch called `something` that already existed locally. I

I had a recent situation where someone had created a branch called `something/some-reason` and I had a branch called `something` that already existed locally. I was unable to check out `something/some-reason` because `something` already existed as a file. Slashes in branch names are BAD ideas and should be avoided.