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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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The preferred way to contribute would be through GitHub pull requests,
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as an alternative patches can be discussed on the IRC channel.
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When contributing your first changes, please include an empty commit for
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copyright waiver using the following message (replace 'John Doe' with
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your name or nickname):
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John Doe Copyright Waiver
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I dedicate any and all copyright interest in this software to the
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public domain. I make this dedication for the benefit of the public at
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large and to the detriment of my heirs and successors. I intend this
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dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all
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present and future rights to this software under copyright law.
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The command to create an empty commit from the command line is
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git commit --allow-empty
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