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

From Git Community Book:

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch 
rm .git/index 
git clean -fdx 
 
git add your files 
git commit -m 'Initial commit'