Perform an empty commit with mercurial
With with Mercurial queues extension, I can make an empty commit with some commit message like so: hg qnew patch_name -m "message" Is there a way to do this without Mercurial queues? I tried simply: hg commit -m "message" but hg just says "nothing changed" and doesn't do the commit, and I don't see any "force" option that would override that. If you're wondering about my motivation for doing this: we have testing infrastructure where you push to a special repository and it will trigger automated tests to run. You need to put a special string into the commit message of the tipmost commit that