Sometimes you need to create a clean branch in git that has no history.
This is the case for example when you need to have two or more code bases, but you are have just a single repository. Sad but happens !
You have to do with what you have.
In this case use the following recipe :
#fetch the original repo. #Normally you would like dir_name to be the same as the new branch name git clone ssh://.... dir_name cd dir_name #create the orphan branch git checkout --orphan blah #cleanup all the files, you dont need them, right ? git rm -rf . #add a file so you can commit echo start > readme.txt git commit -m 'creating an orphan branch ...' -a #now the branch shows up git branch # ... no commit log, like we wanted git log # time to make the branch show up in the remote repo git push -u origin blah
