We are using a git repository to store our project. We have our branches departing from the original branch. But now we want to create a small new project to track some documentation. For that we would want to create a new empty branch to start storing our files, and I would want other users of the network to clone that branch.
How can we do that?
I tried some things, but they didn't work.
$ mkdir proj_doc; cd proj_doc
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'first commit'
$ git br proj_doc
$ git co proj_doc
$ git br -d master
$ git push origin proj_doc
It seems to push the branch ok, but when I do a fetch or pull, it downloads information from other branches, and then I also get some extra files from other projects. What's the best solution?
You can create a branch as an orphan:
git checkout --orphan <branchname>
This will create a new branch with no parents. Then, you can clear the working directory with:
git rm --cached -r .
and add the documentation files, commit them and push them up to github.
A pull or fetch will always update the local information about all the remote branches. If you only want to pull/fetch the information for a single remote branch, you need to specify it.