Git create a empty branch from existing repository

Question

I have a git repository which has many branches my requirement is to create a new empty branch so that its independent of the earlier branches.

Answer 1

That's not a good practice, but if you want really start with a new branch without relation to master you must use --orphan argument of checkout :

git checkout --orphan version2
# and remove your project files

You'll get more detail about --orphan arguments in the doc : http://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout