Added a catch to the def gitVersionProvider in build.gradle with default
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Reason:
When following instructions on Readme, my gradle sync would not complete (on a brand new run of source code downloaded from GitHub).
I traced it down to a bit of ambiguity in the instructions regarding how to setup project. The gitVersionProvider function was crashing due to it trying to parse an empty string when it expects four numerals separated by periods.
This fix would decrease the need for internal knowledge to contribute to this project.
What I did:
Added a catch to the
def gitVersionProviderin build.gradle which defaults the value to "0.0.0.0" so it does not crash on initial build.Additional notes:
Note: If this is not in line with what the project team would want, I would suggest at least leaving the try/catch in place and failing gracefully with a a different error message that tells policy for where to assign the version during builds. Thank you!