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Based on the SO comments, this is not a good general practice, and I believe the point of the posts mentioned in the question is that it can be done (but one probably shouldn't) this can be use...
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#1: Initial revision
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toraritte
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2023-11-08T13:39:30Z (about 1 year ago)
Based on the [SO comments](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68440032/what-is-the-point-of-triggering-ci-cd-with-an-empty-git-commit), this is not a good general practice, and I believe the point of the posts mentioned in the question is that + it can be done (but one probably shouldn't) + this can be used to test a CI/CD build service/system without having to add a contrived change. It seems that a good general rule would be to push empty commits only to personal work branches, and remove them before a pull request and/or merging to `master`/`main`. --- The SO thread [Pushing empty commits to remote][4] asks questions (see below) that would answer this thread, but they have been completely ignored there. > Are there any disadvantages/consequences of pushing empty commits? Is there any problem I might face in future because of this empty commit?? --- Apparently, there is also the practice of [starting a repo with an empty commit](https://web.archive.org/web/20170919074934/http://bit-booster.com:80/doing-git-wrong/2017/01/02/git-init-empty/). Read the post a couple of times, but still don't understand the reasoning (and I suspect that it is perhaps a satirical post). [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20138640/pushing-empty-commits-to-remote