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Discussion on: The Magic of Empty Git Commit

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srgloureiro

I don't see an useful purpose for this, unless the sheer curiosity.
It will just add more blank entries to the history, and if you have lots and lots of them, it will make to search for useful entries more difficult.

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Pradumna Saraf

I suppose you haven't worked in teams with hundreds of maintainers, where bots are used to merge the PRs and ask for an empty commit to be pushed because that is the only way to rerun the CI.

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