Git to create unrelated branch in a new directory

Question

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)

Riken Shah · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-16T06:04:01.757

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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.

edited Apr 16 '16 at 06:04

answered Apr 16 '16 at 05:48

Riken Shah

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do i have to run `git checkout branchname` inside the `master` folder – Yash Kumar Verma Apr 16 '16 at 05:51
`error: pathspec 'v2' did not match any file(s) known to git.` : when runnign `git checkout v2` in the master directory – Yash Kumar Verma Apr 16 '16 at 05:52
No, it should be where you initialised git using `git init`. That would be `light-mvc` in your case. – Riken Shah Apr 16 '16 at 05:54
i did not initialize the light-mvc. I did the `git init` inside master – Yash Kumar Verma Apr 16 '16 at 05:54
You can only track files and directories inside a folder in which you initialised git. – Riken Shah Apr 16 '16 at 05:56
so shall i move the master's content to `light-mvc` – Yash Kumar Verma Apr 16 '16 at 05:57
You can now do something like this, delete `.git` folder inside master and do `git init` in `light-mvc` and make it uptodate with your github remote. – Riken Shah Apr 16 '16 at 05:58
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/109295/discussion-between-raptor96-and-yash-verma). – Riken Shah Apr 16 '16 at 05:59

Git to create unrelated branch in a new directory

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