From 7ade8c1f38efaa8817bd10df6b0928ef70822f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Nosek <onosek@redhat.com>
Date: May 16 2023 22:32:47 +0000
Subject: `commit` command fails on 'containers' namespace


Commit failed when 'uses_rpmautospec' tried to search for a specfile.
There is no specfile in 'containers' namespace repository.

JIRA: RHELCMP-11734

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Nosek <onosek@redhat.com>

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diff --git a/pyrpkg/__init__.py b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
index f14b055..b45ad8f 100644
--- a/pyrpkg/__init__.py
+++ b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
@@ -1872,8 +1872,15 @@ class Commands(object):
         # construct the git command
         # We do this via subprocess because the git module is terrible.
         cmd = ['git', 'commit']
-        if not self.is_retired() and self.uses_rpmautospec:
-            cmd.append('--allow-empty')
+        if not self.is_retired():
+            try:
+                # raises exception when a specfile is missing
+                # (for example when processing "containers" namespace repository)
+                uses_rpmautospec = self.uses_rpmautospec
+            except Exception:
+                uses_rpmautospec = False
+            if uses_rpmautospec:
+                cmd.append('--allow-empty')
         if signoff:
             cmd.append('-s')
         if self.quiet: