Add an Empty Initial Commit as a Best Practice

[Jan-Schuppik]

Adding an empty initial commit is considered a best practice before committing any new files. This ensures the repository’s history starts in a clean state and provides a clear anchor point for future commits.
Additionally, the initial commit is very useful if you want to show things that are only possible once a commit already exists in the repository.

git commit --allow-empty -m "initial commit"

[martialblog]

Hi, never heard this before. What are the benefits?

[theFeu]

When you do an interative rebase and order your commit history you can't easily edit the initial commit. I feel like having an empty commit as an anchor could actually help with keeping the history clean and orderly :)

[martialblog]

My verdict would be: it shouldn't be on the slide and shouldn't maybe be "best practice", but we can mention in in the handhout