Perform an empty commit with mercurial

Question

With with Mercurial queues extension, I can make an empty commit with some commit message like so:

hg qnew patch_name -m \"message\"

Is the

Answer 1

You can now create empty commits by just doing hg ci -m "empty commit"

e.g.

hg branch my-next-branch
hg ci -m "empty commit"

Will create a my-next-branch with a single empty commit that you can push to the remote repo.