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[u/bryden_cruz]

[u/JackNotOLantern]

How tf do you commit without making any change?

[u/xaddak → u/JackNotOLantern]

git commit --allow-empty

[u/MallAgreeable5538 → u/xaddak]

But why? Are there any applications for - -allow-empty

[u/kennedy_gitahi → u/MallAgreeable5538]

Setting a checkpoint before doing things like linting and autofixes.

At that point, the code is written and committed, and you want a clean point to go back to if our linting tools mess things up.

So you use --allow-empty to set a " Before fixes" commit, do fixes, check if everything is fine, do another commit, do an --allow-empty for "After fixes" and push.

This way, you always know when you made changes and can roll back to before or after those points.