From 4dc7919ec0ccf78df525dc5cee7a90482d900856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mcclure <andi.m.mcclure@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:15:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix sporadic failure in non-git build (using patch by
 @nikclayton) (#3307)

---
 app/build.gradle | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index b8098a9f..283a8374 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ plugins {
 
 // For constructing gitSha only
 def getGitSha = {
-    try {
+    try {  // Try-catch is necessary for build to work on non-git distributions
         providers.exec {
             commandLine 'git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD'
+            executionResult.rethrowFailure() // Without this, sometimes it just stops immediately instead of throwing
         }.standardOutput.asText.get().trim()
     } catch (Exception e) {
-        "unknown" // Try-catch is necessary for build to work on non-git distributions
+        "unknown"
     }
 }