hey folks is there a way to create a commit without any chan

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hey folks is there a way to create a commit without any changes similar to git s ` allow empty` option we re ingesting third party data into lakefs and making a daily commit it would be helpful to commit even without changes so that history shows there were no new files that day

Or Tzabary · Answer

hey < Sander Hartlage> thanks for explaining the use case let me check that for you

Or Tzabary · Answer

< Sander Hartlage> digging a little deeper the commit requires files to change in order to execute

Or Tzabary · Answer

you can use tags to point to a specific commit without adding new files but that doesn t support your usecase

Or Tzabary · Answer

you 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

Or Tzabary · Answer

does this support your use case

Sander Hartlage · Answer

yeah that should work great

Sander Hartlage · Answer

that s probably an even better solution that allowing empty commits

Sander Hartlage · Answer

every time i ve had to use ` allow empty` was because i was doing something crazy

Or Tzabary · Answer

happy to hear that

Or Tzabary · Answer

let me know if there s anything else we can help with

Ariel Shaqed (Scolnicov) · Answer

An 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