I would like to deploy a Heroku app which will be done ideally using git push -u heroku master. However this will only work if there are any pending commits to be pushed to master.
How can I redeploy the app while there is nothing to push ? I tried git push -u heroku master -f and still get the same below
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from heroku.
Everything up-to-date
PS: I also want to retain the existing app, which means I cannot make use of this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/22043184/968442
Normally setting a config var causes your application to be restarted. In most situations there should be no need to redeploy after doing this.
If you really do need to trigger a new deployment you can add a new empty commit, then push to Heroku again:
git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger Heroku deploy after enabling collectstatic"
git push heroku master
The new empty commit is a regular commit. It has a hash, an author, a timestamp, etc. It will have the same tree as its parent. This should cause Heroku to build your app slug again using the same code as the previous commit.
It's a bit awkward, but it works.