Linked Questions

I have a local repo for a website I am helping make. I edited some element of the page and I wanted to push the change. The leader of the site project told me to make a new branch, e.g enhancements/...

While helping a friend with a git problem today, I had to introduce a branch that needed to be totally separate from the master branch. The contents of this branch really had a different origin from ...

I would like to define a new "root" branch in this git repository. By "root" branch I mean a branch that is entirely independent of all the other branches in the repository1. Unfortunately, even the ...

I have a git repo containing a project. I now am going to do a massive overhaul of the project. How can I create a new branch for this overhaul that is blank? Then when complete. How can I switch ...

The master branch of a new project's git repo contains only prototype/spike code. I'm about to re-start the coding from scratch, now that I have the basic ideas understood. I want the master branch ...

I have a single branch in my repo: develop. Code has already been committed and pushed in there. There's no master branch in the repo. I'd like to create a master branch so I can raise a Pull ...

I don't know how to make an empty branch, whenever I make a branch, all of the 'master' branch items gets putted in the new branch...

Can I create a branch from the master, without any of the content held on the master branch being copied over to the new branch? Can I do this, and what is the git command to do it, is it possible?

I need to create an empty orphan branch from another remote branch. The problem is if I checkout to the parent branch, it will pull the files, and those will then be included in the orphan branch. Or ...

I would like to create a new branch with a copy of one particular commit only (from master, i.e.). How do I do that? The closest I got to that is something like: git checkout --orphan NEWBRANCH git ...

We have a requirement, where we have to create a feature branch in Github repository. But the problem is whenever I am creating the feature branch, the contents of master is getting replicated in the ...

I have created a repository for my project, and there has been only a "develop" branch. I just forget to create a "master" branch at the beginning. Now, All my work is on the "develop" branch. Now, I ...