As a DevOps engineer, you must have heard at least something about GitOps. GitOps is a set of practices that allows to manage infrastructure and application configurations using Git as a single source of truth. Building CI/CD pipelines is one major DevOps responsibility, which usually is triggered by a git commit. While developing, we might need to test a deployment pipeline by pushing a “test” git commit.
You really don’t want to commit empty files, hence you can create an empty commit by following the steps below.
Prerequisites
- Git
Solution
Step 1. Create an empty git commit.
git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger test deployment"
Step 2. Push the commit to the remote repository.
git push
Conclusion
Empty git commits will show up in your history, so you could either squash or remove them, which will be a topic about in a future post. To find more neat Git commands and hacks, browse the Git category. Feel free to leave a comment below and if you find this tutorial useful, follow our official channel on Telegram.