hey folks, is there a way to create a commit witho...
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Sander Hartlage
10/31/2022, 1:11 PMhey folks, is there a way to create a commit without any changes, similar to git's
--allow-emptyo
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10/31/2022, 1:13 PMhey @Sander Hartlage !
thanks for explaining the use case, let me check that for you
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10/31/2022, 1:22 PM@Sander Hartlage digging a little deeper, the commit requires files to change in order to execute
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10/31/2022, 1:23 PMyou can use tags to point to a specific commit without adding new files, but that doesn't support your usecase
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10/31/2022, 1:24 PMyou could modify a single file (i.e updated_at) which will contain the timestamp, this will let you commit as you provide the command least one file
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10/31/2022, 1:24 PMdoes this support your use-case?
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Sander Hartlage
10/31/2022, 1:25 PMyeah, that should work great
Sander Hartlage
10/31/2022, 1:26 PMthat's probably an even better solution that allowing empty commits
Sander Hartlage
10/31/2022, 1:26 PMevery time i've had to use
--allow-emptysunglasses lakefs 1
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10/31/2022, 1:26 PMhappy to hear that
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10/31/2022, 1:27 PMlet me know if there's anything else we can help with
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Ariel Shaqed (Scolnicov)
10/31/2022, 8:32 PMAn option to allow empty commits would have been useful for me, too. The upcoming LakeFSOutputCommitter has to perform commits; having to special-case this (and similar things when merging no changes) is a pain... That will probably lead to more special area in downstream automated applications.
I am not sure why we block these commits.
They can help with any automated process. For instance if I have gc enabled, I might want a daily commit on my trunk so I can always see data from the last 2 weeks + 1 commit. But I cannot have it if there is no new data.
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