From 76beeda3926bd3339cbe803f647d7566a713a91b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Bennett <jbennett@incomsystems.biz>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 00:12:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Re-add exception for empty chain

---
 src/modules/Native/StoreForwardPlusPlus.cpp | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/modules/Native/StoreForwardPlusPlus.cpp b/src/modules/Native/StoreForwardPlusPlus.cpp
index 1ec9884f4..30aa54172 100644
--- a/src/modules/Native/StoreForwardPlusPlus.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/Native/StoreForwardPlusPlus.cpp
@@ -1161,9 +1161,11 @@ bool StoreForwardPlusPlusModule::addToChain(link_object &lo)
 
     if (lo.commit_hash_len >= SFPP_SHORT_HASH_SIZE && memcmp(tmp_commit_hash, lo.commit_hash, lo.commit_hash_len) != 0) {
 
-        LOG_ERROR("StoreForwardpp Commit hash mismatch");
+        LOG_WARN("StoreForwardpp Commit hash mismatch");
         logLinkObject(lo);
-        return false;
+        if (chain_end.validObject)
+            return false;
+        LOG_INFO("Commiting anyway due to empty chain");
     }
     if (lo.commit_hash_len < SFPP_HASH_SIZE) {
         memcpy(lo.commit_hash, tmp_commit_hash, SFPP_HASH_SIZE);