Motivation

With the removal of CircleCI and #12829 we removed the need of having an empty commit to trigger the CI on releases of localstack-core and localstack/localstack.

We can now proceed to trigger the pipeline purely via the tag on the latest commit in the main branch.

Changes

• remove --allow-empty in the release commit

Testing

• running git commit -m "test" on a clean working tree just skips the creation of a commit. Subsequently running git tag will then put it on the latest commit in the branch.

TODO

What's left to do:

• Decide whether we should remove --allow-empty for the development iteration branch as well or not. In theory this commit is also unnecessary
  • The empty commit after the release is necessary for getting out a dev release for localstack-pro to depend on.
  • However, if we manage to remove this dependency on dev versions we can remove this empty commit as well
• ...