diff --git a/scripts/lint.sh b/scripts/lint.sh
index e54f1d8..f585e83 100755
--- a/scripts/lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/lint.sh
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ set -e
 git checkout -- .
 
 # clang-tidy
-git diff -U0 HEAD | "${SCRIPT_DIR}/ignore_diff.py" "${SCRIPT_DIR}/clang-tidy.ignore" | clang-tidy-diff -p1 -quiet > "${TARGET_DIR}"/clang-tidy.txt
+git diff -U0 HEAD | "${SCRIPT_DIR}/ignore_diff.py" "${SCRIPT_DIR}/clang-tidy.ignore" | clang-tidy-diff -p1 -quiet | sed '${/^[[:space:]]*$/d;}' > "${TARGET_DIR}"/clang-tidy.txt
 
 echo "linters completed ======================================"
diff --git a/scripts/phabtalk/phabtalk.py b/scripts/phabtalk/phabtalk.py
index 27799df..08b8910 100755
--- a/scripts/phabtalk/phabtalk.py
+++ b/scripts/phabtalk/phabtalk.py
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ class BuildReport:
             self.comments.append(section_title('clang-tidy', False, False))
             return
         p = os.path.join(self.results_dir, self.clang_tidy_result)
-        if os.stat(p).st_size > 4:
+        if os.stat(p).st_size > 0:
             self.api.add_artifact(self.ph_id, self.clang_tidy_result, "clang-tidy", self.results_url)
         ignore = pathspec.PathSpec.from_lines(pathspec.patterns.GitWildMatchPattern,
                                               open(self.clang_tidy_ignore, 'r').readlines())