From 63c9e5d46d2cbbc870779f0aade2ae47d38aa09f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Crichton <alex@alexcrichton.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:45:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow empty commits for the release (#4927)

The release process failed last night due to me filling out the dates in
the release notes early (rather than leaving "Unreleased") which mean
there were no changes for each commit. Switch to passing `--allow-empty`
when making a commit to prevent this.
---
 .github/workflows/release-process.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-process.yml b/.github/workflows/release-process.yml
index 7caeeb8b5e..4fe7e5b465 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-process.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-process.yml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
           rustc ci/update-release-date.rs -o /tmp/update-release-date
           /tmp/update-release-date $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
 
-          git commit -a -F-<<EOF
+          git commit --allow-empty -a -F-<<EOF
           Update release date of Wasmtime $cur
           EOF
           git push origin HEAD:ci/release-date-for-$cur
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
           # released
           git reset --hard origin/release-$cur
           sed -i "s/^Unreleased/Released $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')/" RELEASES.md
-          git commit -a -F-<<EOF
+          git commit --allow-empty -a -F-<<EOF
           Release Wasmtime $cur
 
           [automatically-tag-and-release-this-commit]