From 5a0aceb5481ee9f4dbfed1b5e7a12d004a9a30f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chenying Zhao <chenyzh@seas.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:43:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add --allow-empty

---
 babs/babs.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/babs/babs.py b/babs/babs.py
index f9719fe1..5912308c 100644
--- a/babs/babs.py
+++ b/babs/babs.py
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ def babs_bootstrap(self, input_ds,
             proc_git_commit_amend = subprocess.run(
                 ["git", "commit", "--amend", "-m",
                     "Register input data dataset '" + input_ds.df["name"][i_ds]
-                    + "' as a subdataset"],
+                    + "' as a subdataset",
+                    "--allow-empty"],
                 cwd=self.analysis_path,
                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE
             )