diff -r 7546bf46bfcd -r 0bd730fbcc2b mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py	Mon Mar 18 19:11:55 2019 +0300
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py	Mon Mar 18 19:31:45 2019 +0300
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
         if kind == 'literal':
             # note: falls through to the revspec case if no branch with
             # this name exists and pattern kind is not specified explicitly
-            if pattern in repo.branchmap():
+            if repo.branchmap().hasbranch(pattern):
                 return subset.filter(lambda r: matcher(getbranch(r)),
                                      condrepr=('<branch %r>', b))
             if b.startswith('literal:'):