The works here are on behalf of Solus, for the Solus infrastructure, and not that of my employer, and as such have blanket "own time approval" for the umbrella "Solus Project". This much I can do. Signing a CLA of any description for any purpose is what would entangle employers, something I cannot do.

Sidenote, it does turn out that in any instance, this will require some kind of empty commit for HEAD to exist, i.e. Repo constructed - but this change at least allows the empty commit to work.