You are going to have those issues anyway. Since there is no common ancestor you will have to commit a .gitignore from scratch to that new branch. Files left ov

You are going to have those issues anyway. Since there is no common ancestor you will have to commit a .gitignore from scratch to that new branch. Files left over is another common issue, if they are not committed then when you switch branches they are going to stick around, just like with any other branch switch...