How to create a branch without adding all the existing files?

Question

When I create branch in git, all the created files are added to the new branch.

How can I create a branch without adding all the existing files?

Answer 1

The current answers are correct, you'd need an orphaned branch, but I would just add that coincidentally...

This is actually exactly how github.com lets users create Github Pages for their repos, thru an orphaned branch called gh-pages. The pretty steps are given and explained here:

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manually

Hope this helps!