[FIX] `git commit --amend`error when `babs-init`: need to add `--allow-empty`?

[zhao-cy]

Shreya from Alexander-Bloch lab ran babs-init without issue following the example walkthrough, but got error when using the datalad dataset created by her. We've made sure she used datalad create -c text2git and datalad save the changes, so the this input datalad dataset should be fine.

Error message:

If we go to analysis folder, and run git commit -amend -m "Register input data dataset xxxx" --allow-empty, then it's fine and changes are saved. Before running this, datalad status says modified: xxxx.

Try adding --allow-empty and see if this can resolve the problem.

[zhao-cy]

Version she is using:

python : 3.9.16
datalad : 0.19.3
git : 2.40.1
git-annex : 10.20230408-g5b1e8ba77
datalad containers-add : 1.2.3
babs : 0.0.6

[zhao-cy]

It seems this error only happens on their cluster's fileshare directory, but not in Shreya's home directory on the cluster. We are investigating more here.