Re: How to create independent branches

Peter Baumann [off-list ref] writes:

Another question. I'd like to create a totaly independent branch (like
the "todo" branch in git). Is there a more user friendly way than doing

git-checkout -b todo
rm .git/refs/heads/todo
rm .git/index
rm <all_files_in_your_workdir>

... hack hack hack ...
git-commit -a

I looked all over the docs, but can't find anything obvious.

My "todo" branch is not even part of my main git repository.  I
just have two independent repositories (git and todo) locally,
and push into the same public repository.