We often need to do it to rerun broken pipelines... due a messy architecture we have at work a pipeline dependent on subpipelines and 3rd party projects pipelines. Sometimes, cleaning the caches and rerunning it is not enough to solve an issue, so a clean chain needs to be triggered... therefore empty commits. (They are actually used in the MRs so they will be squashed in master).
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We often need to do it to rerun broken pipelines... due a messy architecture we have at work a pipeline dependent on subpipelines and 3rd party projects pipelines. Sometimes, cleaning the caches and rerunning it is not enough to solve an issue, so a clean chain needs to be triggered... therefore empty commits. (They are actually used in the MRs so they will be squashed in master).