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

In recent Git versions, 2.27 at least, this can be cleanly achieved with the switchcommand:

git switch --orphan 

Official documentation: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-switch