Pushing empty commits to remote

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I have pushed one commit to remote but now I realized that the commit message is not correct  I would like to change the commit message but AFAIK it is not possible  So i decided to create empty commit with correct message   git commit --allow-empty   Are there any disadvantages consequences of pushing empty commits  Is there any problem I might face in future because of this empty commit

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git commit --allow-empty -m  Trigger Build

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pushing commits  whether empty or not  causes eventual git hooks to be triggered  This can do either nothing or have world shattering consequences

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You won t face any terrible consequence  just the history will look kind of confusing   You could change the commit message by doing  git commit --amend git push --force-with-lease    as opposed to --force  it doesn t overwrite others  work    BUT this will override the remote history with yours  meaning that if anybody pulled that repo in the meanwhile  this person is going to be very mad at you     Just do it if you are the only person accessing the repo

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What about this     git commit --allow-empty-message -m

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As long as you clearly reference the other commit from the empty commit it should be fine  Something like   Commit message errata for  commit sha1    new commit message    As others have pointed out  this is often preferable to force pushing a corrected commit

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Is there any disadvantages consequences of pushing empty commits    Aside from the extreme confusion someone might get as to why there s a bunch of commits with no content in them on master  not really   You can change the commit that you pushed to remote  but the sha1 of the commit  basically it s id number  will change permanently  which alters the source tree --  You d then have to do a git push -f back to remote

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