Making an empty main branch

[jennifer-spillane]

This might be just user error, but I could not get the instructions for creating an empty main branch to work. Every time I tried to switch over to the main branch I created following the instructions, it would tell me error: pathspec 'main' did not match any file(s) known to git. And when I created a main branch in my github gui and then tried to delete the files, they deleted from everywhere and I did a quick git reset --hard before committing so I didn't lose the whole site. This happened multiple times. Again, it's absolutely possible this was something that I just did wrong, but I'm not sure what, and I was following the instructions pretty carefully.

Eventually I just went into github online and deleted the files and directories I didn't want manually. So I have (what I think is) the same end result, but got there kind of a funny way.