On September 23, 2024 2:43 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >On Sep 23 2024, email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Thank you for your reply, Han. The problem that I have with ‘—allow-empty’ is >that the resulting commit is not associated with any particular file. I tried ‘git commit >—allow-empty myfile.txt’ but the file argument is effectively ignored. ‘git log >myfile.txt’ does not show the empty commit. > >Since the git model is snapshot based, there is no way around that, apart from >putting the reference in the commit message which you can search with git log -- >grep=myfile.txt. One way around this is to inject a date/timestamp in the file. Be careful about conflicts If you every try to merge. This forces a signature change in the internal blob on commit. I am not recommending this, just suggesting a way to force the issue.
