In git, is there a simple way of introducing an unrelated branch to a repository?

Question

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 bra

Answer 1

Sometimes I just want to create empty branch in project instantly then start doing work, I will just excute following command :

git checkout --orphan unrelated.branch.name
git rm --cached -r .
echo "init unrelated branch" > README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "init unrelated branch"