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authorNeal Fultz <nfultz@gmail.com>2019-10-16 09:24:17 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-10-16 09:24:17 -0700
commit0b7b4d6058613531b27eb0efce4287ce9d9eff2f (patch)
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Adding allow-empty command to contributing
Many people will not know about the `allow-empty` flag, and will instead lose time googling the "nothing to commit, working tree clean" error message.
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large and to the detriment of my heirs and successors. I intend this
dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all
present and future rights to this software under copyright law.
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+The command to create an empty commit from the command line is
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+ git commit --allow-empty