From 873fde27ac4eda82005cb836d398f1a4f14f827c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:30:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't error if changelog is unchanged

---
 release.sh | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index a86d9d8e1..2e96c46c2 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ echo "Generating changelog"
 update_changelog "$release"
 read -p "Edit CHANGELOG.md manually, or press enter to continue " REPLY
 
-echo "Committing updated changelog"
-git commit "CHANGELOG.md" -m "Prepare changelog for $tag"
+if [ -n "$(git ls-files --modified CHANGELOG.md)" ]; then
+    echo "Committing updated changelog"
+    git commit "CHANGELOG.md" -m "Prepare changelog for $tag"
+fi
 
 # Bump package.json, build the dist, and tag
 echo "npm version"