BUG: Interferes with Dependency Resolution When Branch Name Contains Double Hyphen

[EarthCitizen]

./gradlew clean

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred configuring project ':account-inquiry-starter'.

Could not determine the dependencies of null.
Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':account-inquiry-starter:classpath'.
> Identifiers MUST NOT be empty

1. git branch -M test--branch
2. ./gradlew clean - error from above
3. git branch -M test-branch
4. ./gradlew clean - success

Oddly, the bug does not happen if I do: ./gradlew clean snapshot