From b6c3fa7d496813de01707ddcc0f6a8fc33597228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alad Wenter <AladW@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 15:13:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] `view`: use empty tree instead of exiting on invalid revision

Closes #1162
---
 lib/aur-view | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/aur-view b/lib/aur-view
index 28a440b3..e24eaca2 100755
--- a/lib/aur-view
+++ b/lib/aur-view
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ for pkg in "${packages[@]}"; do
         # Check if hash points to an existing object
         if ! git cat-file -e "$view"; then
             printf >&2 '%s: %s: invalid git revision\n' "$argv0" "$AUR_VIEW_DB/$pkg"
-            exit 22
+            printf >&2 '%s: %s: falling back to empty tree\n' "$argv0" "$AUR_VIEW_DB/$pkg" 
+            view=$(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)
         fi
 
         if [[ $view != "$head" ]]; then
-- 
2.11.4.GIT