

orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any commit. You can create a new empty branch like this: $ git checkout -orphan foo

Normally branches share files from the directory, but in Git it is possible to create empty branches. In Git you can have it all in one repository and keep things separated and isolated in branches. If the project is a web application with a database backend perhaps a backup of the SQL code is kept in yet another repository.

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