git - Creating Pull Request for master

A co-worker asked me for a code review (we're using Stash, but this can work for other systems as well), the problem was that he worked on master (started his own project) and not in development branch. The solution was to create an empty orphan branch and then a pull request from master to that branch (reverse the usual order).

Here's how to create such branch.

	# Create empty orphan branch for code review
	git checkout --orphan code-review
	git rm -rf .
	git ci --allow-empty -m 'Code review - nuke all'
	git push --set-upstream origin code-review

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