If the DCO check is run on an empty branch (ie one which has no commits different from master), it throws an error due to trying to interpret the empty string as a git commit SHA. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- scripts/require-dco.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/require-dco.py b/scripts/require-dco.py index 9fe13823a9..ae94393319 100755 --- a/scripts/require-dco.py +++ b/scripts/require-dco.py @@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ print("\nChecking for 'Signed-off-by: NAME <EMAIL>' on all commits since %s...\n log = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", "--format=%H %s", ancestor + "..."], universal_newlines=True) -commits = [[c[0:40], c[41:]] for c in log.strip().split("\n")] +if log == "": + commits = [] +else: + commits = [[c[0:40], c[41:]] for c in log.strip().split("\n")] for sha, subject in commits: -- 2.24.1