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Yash Kumar Verma
Yash Kumar Verma

Reputation: 9620

Git to create unrelated branch in a new directory

I tried out In git, is there a simple way of introducing an unrelated branch to a repository? but could not find any correct solution.

What I exactly want is to create a new branch, say v2. The branch v2 will have the contents of the master branch but should be independent of the master. Also the v2 branch should be in a separate directory.

My current local directory is :

|light-mvc
| --master // contains the master branch
| --v2    // should contain the v2 branch

and my remote repo is https://github.com/YashKumarVerma/Light-PHP-MVC (if it matters)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 156

Answers (1)

Riken Shah
Riken Shah

Reputation: 3154

You can do something like this.

Assuming right now you have only master folder inside light-mvc and is up-to-date with your remote.

Now make a branch using git branch v2. Then git checkout v2 and make a new directory v2 and put whatever code you want to put into it. Then push on the same branch ,i.e., v2.

So essentially your master branch has master folder and v2 branch has master + v2 folder.

I hope this solves it.

Upvotes: 2

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