Add --empty=keep to backport command #15028
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If the pull request being back ported contains an empty commit, the backport command will fail during
git am
since it has not been instructed what to do with an empty commit.This changes the backport command to preserve the empty commit.
See this pull request from
dotnet/runtime
for an example of the backport command failing in the presence of an empty commit: dotnet/runtime#106779