Github user khalidhuseynov commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1775 @1ambda actually i've tried to reproduce [ZEPPELIN-1737](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1737) and even with git 2.11.0 wasn't able to do it. also from documentation [here](https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/RelNotes) only from 2.11.0 `--allow-empty` commits was introduced, meaning only git versions 2.11+ could be a problem which is the most recent version and can be built from the source only for now. So I think reviewing this PR wouldn't much depend on git version, and [ZEPPELIN-1737](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1737) will be addressed separately.
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