Merge pull request astropy#17 from mdboom/faster-get-git-devstr

Don't call out to git if we're sure it will fail
eteq · May 23, 2014 · 7793b28 · 7793b28
2 parents 1f6aac5 + 6cac506
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diff --git a/astropy_helpers/git_helpers.py b/astropy_helpers/git_helpers.py
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ def get_git_devstr(sha=False, show_warning=True, path=None):
     if not os.path.isdir(path):
         path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(path))
 
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(path, '.git')):
+        return ''
+
     if sha:
         cmd = ['rev-parse']  # Faster for getting just the hash of HEAD
     else: