Hadmut Danisch wrote: > when creating a new branch in git, it is by default filled with the > contents of the current branch. > > Sometimes a new but empty branch is needed. There are plenty of > instructions in the web to achieve this with „dirty tricks”, i.e. fiddle > around with git's internals. git init ../unrelated-topic cd ../unrelated-topic hack away... git commit cd - git fetch ../unrelated-topic master:<new branch> Or: git checkout --orphan <new branch> git rm -fr . hack away... Please feel free to contact the authors of the instructions you found on the web to fix them. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html