commit d67e7158df1e98a04882fd10696adb65a0c3f511
author Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org> Thu Apr 13 01:21:03 2017 -0700
committer Commit Bot <commit-bot@chromium.org> Thu Apr 13 08:38:03 2017 +0000
tree 4f12203cc826c384d789672e6497ca0d550e8d84
parent 3a3de33b724cb6a950e063bb40408db1694a6c97

Fix GetOldContents() to return an empty string if the file didn't exist.

Bug: 700108
Change-Id: I9010aa3b4aa467c91b93ffac924b3ec5a16cfaa2
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/476590
Reviewed-by: Jochen Eisinger <jochen@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org>

scm.py

diff --git a/scm.py b/scm.py
index 6132845..88016dc 100644
--- a/scm.py
+++ b/scm.py
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@
     if not branch:
       branch = GIT.GetUpstreamBranch(cwd)
     command = ['show', '%s:%s' % (branch, filename)]
-    return GIT.Capture(command, cwd=cwd, strip_out=False)
+    try:
+      return GIT.Capture(command, cwd=cwd, strip_out=False)
+    except subprocess2.CalledProcessError:
+      return ''
 
   @staticmethod
   def GenerateDiff(cwd, branch=None, branch_head='HEAD', full_move=False,