From 0b7b4d6058613531b27eb0efce4287ce9d9eff2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neal Fultz <nfultz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:24:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adding allow-empty command to contributing

Many people will not know about the `allow-empty` flag, and will instead
lose time googling the "nothing to commit, working tree clean" error message.
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 CONTRIBUTING | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 869a4efd..eeaafc21 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -12,3 +12,9 @@ your name or nickname):
   large and to the detriment of my heirs and successors.  I intend this
   dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all
   present and future rights to this software under copyright law.
+  
+  
+  
+The command to create an empty commit from the command line is 
+
+  git commit --allow-empty