With with Mercurial queues extension, I can make an empty commit with some commit message like so:
hg qnew patch_name -m \"message\"
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You can use hg commit --amend
to create empty commits.
Just create an arbitrary commit and backout the change. Afterwards fold both commits together.
Example:
touch tmp # create dummy file
hg add tmp # add file and...
hg commit -m "tmp" # ... commit
hg rm tmp # remove the file again and ...
hg commit --amend -m "empty commit" # ... commit