Creating an empty git branch and pushing it remotely
Say you wanted to create an empty branch of an existing git repository. That is a new branch with no history, say to track your project docs.
Be sure that you don’t have any pending changes in your workspace before executing these commands.
$ cd ~/my-git-repo
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/docs
$ git rm –cached -r .
$ rm -fr *
$ git commit –allow-empty -m “Initialized docs branch.”
$ git push origin docs
