diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c13e8bd..d019840 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "wiki-to-git",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.0.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "wiki-to-git",
-      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "version": "1.0.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "node-fetch": "3.x"
@@ -547,9 +547,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/eslint": {
-      "version": "8.44.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint/-/eslint-8.44.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-0wpHoUbDUHgNCyvFB5aXLiQVfK9B0at6gUvzy83k4kAsQ/u769TQDX6iKC+aO4upIHO9WSaA3QoXYQDHbNwf1A==",
+      "version": "8.45.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint/-/eslint-8.45.0.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-pd8KSxiQpdYRfYa9Wufvdoct3ZPQQuVuU5O6scNgMuOMYuxvH0IGaYK0wUFjo4UYYQQCUndlXiMbnxopwvvTiw==",
       "dev": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@eslint-community/eslint-utils": "^4.2.0",
@@ -577,7 +577,6 @@
         "globals": "^13.19.0",
         "graphemer": "^1.4.0",
         "ignore": "^5.2.0",
-        "import-fresh": "^3.0.0",
         "imurmurhash": "^0.1.4",
         "is-glob": "^4.0.0",
         "is-path-inside": "^3.0.3",
@@ -589,7 +588,6 @@
         "natural-compare": "^1.4.0",
         "optionator": "^0.9.3",
         "strip-ansi": "^6.0.1",
-        "strip-json-comments": "^3.1.0",
         "text-table": "^0.2.0"
       },
       "bin": {
@@ -603,9 +601,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/eslint-scope": {
-      "version": "7.2.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint-scope/-/eslint-scope-7.2.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-DYj5deGlHBfMt15J7rdtyKNq/Nqlv5KfU4iodrQ019XESsRnwXH9KAE0y3cwtUHDo2ob7CypAnCqefh6vioWRw==",
+      "version": "7.2.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint-scope/-/eslint-scope-7.2.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-CvefSOsDdaYYvxChovdrPo/ZGt8d5lrJWleAc1diXRKhHGiTYEI26cvo8Kle/wGnsizoCJjK73FMg1/IkIwiNA==",
       "dev": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "esrecurse": "^4.3.0",
@@ -631,9 +629,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/espree": {
-      "version": "9.6.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/espree/-/espree-9.6.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-1FH/IiruXZ84tpUlm0aCUEwMl2Ho5ilqVh0VvQXw+byAz/4SAciyHLlfmL5WYqsvD38oymdUwBss0LtK8m4s/A==",
+      "version": "9.6.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/espree/-/espree-9.6.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-oruZaFkjorTpF32kDSI5/75ViwGeZginGGy2NoOSg3Q9bnwlnmDm4HLnkl0RE3n+njDXR037aY1+x58Z/zFdwQ==",
       "dev": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "acorn": "^8.9.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d9ed9f3..8e27429 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "wiki-to-git",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.0.1",
   "description": "Node.js tool that helps to download Mediwiki page history and push it to a Git repository.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "src/main.js",
diff --git a/src/GitOps.js b/src/GitOps.js
index a311257..09e90ba 100644
--- a/src/GitOps.js
+++ b/src/GitOps.js
@@ -76,10 +76,22 @@ export default class GitOps {
 		args.push(this.pDate(history));
 		let env = {};
 		env.GIT_COMMITTER_DATE = history.dt.toString().trim();
-		const result = await this.execFile('git', args, this.dir, env);
-		if (!result) {
-			throw 'Unable to commit changes!';
+
+		let result;
+		try {
+			result = await this.execFile('git', args, this.dir, env);
+			if (!result) {
+				throw 'Unable to commit changes!';
+			}
+		} catch (error) {
+			if (error.code === 1 && error.stdout.search(/nothing to commit/) >= 0) {
+				console.log('\n\nskipping empty commit:\n', history);
+			} else {
+				this.execInfo(error.stdout, error.stderr);
+				throw(error);
+			}
 		}
+
 		return result;
 	}
 
@@ -120,7 +132,7 @@ export default class GitOps {
 	}
 
 	/** @private Report exec problems. */
-	async execInfo(stdout, stderr) {
+	execInfo(stdout, stderr) {
 		if (stdout && stdout.length) {
 			console.log(stdout);
 		}