Biodegradable Geek

Sometimes, like when you’re testing hooks or trying to create synced remote and local repos, you’ll find yourself touching empty files just to get a git push going. This script automates this task by creating a unique temporary file, committing it, pushing, and then removing the file.

#!/bin/sh
TMP=tmp-`date +'%m%s'`
touch $TMP
git add $TMP
git commit $TMP -m '(forced push)'
git push
git rm $TMP
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Usage, assuming you named it git-force and made it executable (chmod)
<pre lang="bash">cd git-repo/
./git-force

I place this in ~/bin/ which is in my $PATH. You might want to if you use this a lot.
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