allow branches to be created without modifying contents

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bin/gitify b/bin/gitify
index 55ddff8..a05ae97 100755
--- a/bin/gitify
+++ b/bin/gitify
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ main() {
 		dirpart="${dirpart//_/\/}"
 
 		branch=$dirpart
+		newbranch=true
 		git checkout PROGRAMS/CVTUTF
-		git checkout -b "$branch" || true
+		git checkout -b "$branch" || newbranch=false
 		git checkout "$branch"
 
 		rm -f -- * .metadata.txt
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ main() {
 			cp "$listingdir/metadata.txt" .metadata.txt
 		fi
 
-		if [[ -n "$(git status -s .)" ]]; then
+		if $newbranch || [[ -n "$(git status -s .)" ]]; then
 			if [[ "$time" = *99 ]]; then
 				msg="Synthesized listing: ${time} ${dirpart}"
 				time="${time%99}00"
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ main() {
 			git add .
 			export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$gitdate
 			export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$gitdate
-			git commit -m "$msg"
+			git commit --allow-empty -m "$msg"
 		fi
 	done
 }