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Allow empty commits
See original GitHub issueThe feature request
Allow empty commits
Proposed solution
Do not disable the commit button when there are no changes
Additional context
Empty commits can be useful.
It allows us to start work with an empty commit and immediately open a pull request for it. In the pull request notes we are able to describe and plan to work that is going to happen on that branch before actually doing any changes.
This is possible from the command line with git commit --allow-empty -m "..." but not with GitHub Desktop
Issue Analytics
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- Created a year ago
- Reactions:4
- Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)
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On my side I use it to create a new tag and re trigger related GitHub actions on a repository used to build a docker image. I push an empty commit when I need to rebuild the image, but I do not need to change anything in the code.
IMO, the commit button should be active even if no file is selected and trigger a confirmation modal to create an empty commit.
It would be super useful to restart CI workflows!