Can we push an empty commit?

Git Repo: github.com/syedjafer/empty_commit_tut

Introduction

During our software development, we follow continuous integrations to deploy our code to the dev/QA/prod environment. For continuous integration, we are using Azure/AWS CI/CD delivery pipelines which allow us to build, test and deploy applications on a single push to a specific git branch. It helps us to reduce the manual overhead of deploying code to the server and handle all the actions automatically.

Problem

We might have faced a problem, where we needed to re-run our delivery pipeline of a branch without adding any extra space or changing any files in the repository.

Solution

So I searched for the solution for a while and It turns out that Git is allowing us to push an empty commit without adding any staged files to the branch, by using one option --allow-empty during the git commit.

git commit --allow-empty -m "empty commit"

So we will try to create a scenario to check this working,

1.Let us create a new repository,

2.After the first commit,

3.Empty commit,

4.Verifying the commit details in github,

Conclusion

Thus, from now on we need not to change any files to re-trigger the CI/CD Piplelines.