# [PATCH] merge-recursive: Replace 'except:'

1 messages from 2005-11-20 to 2005-11-20. Participants: Fredrik Kuivinen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2613

## Fredrik Kuivinen, 2005-11-20 12:14

Subject: [PATCH] merge-recursive: Replace 'except:'
Message-ID: <20051120121437.GD4946@c165.ib.student.liu.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051120121437.GD4946%40c165.ib.student.liu.se

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Plain except:s are evil as they will catch all kinds of exceptions
including NameError and AttrubiteError.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>


---

 git-merge-recursive.py |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applies-to: c037ce1b974c7d0671312b52ed46ed405c1a8443
e90840aaf9adb880297d98e16031665b426e3987
diff --git a/git-merge-recursive.py b/git-merge-recursive.py
index 52e2ad7..3e7758d 100755
--- a/git-merge-recursive.py
+++ b/git-merge-recursive.py
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ def updateFileExt(sha, mode, path, updat
 
             try:
                 createDir = not stat.S_ISDIR(os.lstat(p).st_mode)
-            except: 
+            except OSError:
                 createDir = True
             
             if createDir:
---
0.99.9.GIT

```