Create a new empty branch in Git

new empty git branch.md

$ git checkout --orphan NEWBRANCH
$ git rm -rf .

--orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any commit. After running the above command you are on a new branch "NEWBRANCH", and the first commit you create from this state will start a new history without any ancestry.

You can then start adding files and commit them and they will live in their own branch. If you take a look at the log, you will see that it is isolated from the original log.

A complete example from a 2021 perspective starts with renaming master -> main. Then:

$ git checkout --orphan NEWBRANCH
$ git rm -rf .
$ touch .gitignore && git add .gitignore
$ git commit -m "Initialize with .gitignore"
$ git checkout main
$ git reset --hard NEWBRANCH

how to create new empty branch in repository plz update command

deploy_empty_branch(){
  commit_id=$(git commit-tree -m "New empty $1 branch" 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904)
  git push origin ${commit_id}:refs/heads/$1
}

deploy_empty_branch gh-pages

https://www.edwardthomson.com/blog/pushing_an_empty_branch.html

instead of creating a new empty branch this wiped all my project files and weeks of work are now gone :)