How to push new branch without history

Question

I have git repo with two unrelated branches, master and configs. I\'ve created configs, purged all the files and then placed in configuration files only. Now I want to push

Answer 1

I needed to do this to send a freelancer some code without sharing private information or deleting my history.

In case any of you are using SourceTree, this is how I managed to do it. Please let me know if I did something wrong or am forgetting something as I am very unfamiliar with source control management.

1. I went to the terminal button on source tree.
2. I created a new 'orphan' branch by using the command: 'git checkout --orphan clean-ver' where clean-ver is my branch name
3. I closed the terminal and saw that my commit log was cleared because I was in a new orphan branch. I staged all my source code and committed the changes.
4. I set up my bitbucket repository in either repository>add remote or repository>repository settings>add.
5. I closed that, and clicked on the push button
6. I selected my new 'clean-ver' branch said ok.

When I checked bitbucket, it seems that this seemed to have worked and discarded my commit history.

Hope this helps someone out.