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Commit: allow to create an empty commit (git commit --allow-empty -m "...")
This feature will expose an easy way through the UI to do the same as git commit --allow-empty -m "my comment".
There is a typical use case:
As a developer
When I add an empty commit to my checkout branch
And when I push it to my remote branch
Then it the Continuous Integration server triggers a new build.
Customer support service by UserEcho
Have you already tried to define an external tool?
I also use empty commits, currently I create one in every new repository (that helps as a workaround to difficulties with modifying root commit in git, and other minor problems).
I think it can be reasonable to add a new button to error message "There is nothing to commit".
SmartGit already creates an empty commit when initializing a new Git repository.
... aAnd now also if you have the repository initialized outside SmartGit and do the first commit.
There are tricks on ci/cd pipelines driven by messages on empty commits.