#blogpost In modern applications, you trigger a build; test; deploy; using a git commit. And sometimes, especially when you are building your CI/CD configuration, you want to be able to trigger a build but have no real change to commit. The usual workaround is to update the README, or add a space somewhere random in the code. But you do not have to. This is where the `--allow-empty` git option comes in. An empty commit looks like this: ```git git commit --allow-empty -m "Your commit message" ``` Have fun!