diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a43e761..e355371 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ website is automatically deployed when there's a push to the master
 branch of the repository, as well as once an hour (to update
 signatures).
 
+To trigger a build, use something like this:
+
+```
+git commit --allow-empty -m 'Trigger build'
+```
 
 ## Maintainers
 
diff --git a/fake-commit b/fake-commit
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a6f763..0000000
--- a/fake-commit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-A file to do fake commits to trigger the build after a PR has been merged.
-
-fake16