Stop telling implementers to run git commit --allow-empty

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August 27, 2026 at 7:37 AM UTC

Author

kamo

Commit

0446c19

--allow-empty PERMITS an empty result, it does not force one. With no pathspec it still commits the index, and these checkouts always have another session's work staged in them. A peer ran this exact line and shipped a re-add of a deleted translation key, taking the marketing build red for ~40 minutes. Both rebuild triggers now build the empty commit out of tree from origin's own tree, where there is no index to sweep, and assert the --stat is empty before pushing.