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Comments on What is the point of triggering CI/CD with an empty git commit?

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What is the point of triggering CI/CD with an empty git commit?

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I read posts (e.g., 1, 2, 3) that recommend triggering a CI build process by pushing an empty git commit.

I don't understand how this is a good idea as the commit history will be peppered with meaningless entries, and they can't be removed without re-writing the hashes (e.g., git rebase --interactive, anything from this list), so any clean-up will require a force push (which should be avoided if others also work on that branch).

For example,

BEFORE REBASE:

* c074c70 (HEAD -> master) yet another major item
* bd8e835 trigger CI
* 49ddd75 trigger CI
* f895e9f this is important
* a7da744 trigger CI
* cec6a60 trigger CI
* 96e84f7 init

$ git rebase --interactive 96e84f7

AFTER DROPPING ALL EMPTY COMMITS:

* e441b17 (HEAD -> master) yet another major item
* fc67d54 this is important
* 96e84f7 init

THE ONLY COMMIT THAT RETAINED IT'S ORIGINAL HASH IS "init".
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There's no point. It just causes unnecessary clutter and confusion.

The correct way is to configure a manual way for triggering the CI/CD pipeline. In most systems there should be an API endpoint for this. Or e.g. in Gitlab you can just navigate to Project > Pipelines and click Run pipeline.

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toraritte‭ wrote 11 months ago

To the point, and explains exactly how it should be done without getting lost in specifics.