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    ```
    $ 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.