title: Starting a project and leaving behind the git history
body: <p>I have a project where I feel I would prefer to leave all the long and ugly GIT history behind and start afresh.</p>
  <p>(A reason is that merging produces a zillion conflicts in hundreds of files and resolving then is too tedious and tiresome to consider.  I have yet to discover how to say use <strong>all</strong> my working 'new_features' branch in merging to old master branch).</p>
  <p>Should I start a new GIT repository locally and on GitHub and add the working version files to the new repos?</p>
  <p>Or should I try to use git rebase?</p>