From 6fb5c219892643bce52b67276813b2bd1f851c7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 06:53:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make 'freecode-submit --no-stdin --project rednotebook
 --version 1.8.0' work.

It was throwing a spurious error before.
---
 NEWS            | 3 +++
 freecode-submit | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0aa4bb1..6febd50 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 		freecode-submit project release news
 
+Repository head
+    Fix a minor bug when the script is called without data input.
+
 2.6 @ 2013-09-27
     Documentation fixes.
     Automatically generate an md5 file when shipping this code.
diff --git a/freecode-submit b/freecode-submit
index cd68df2..5b2ad31 100755
--- a/freecode-submit
+++ b/freecode-submit
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class FreecodeMetadataFactory:
             if key not in controls and value != None:
                 data[key] = value
                 del options.__dict__[key]
-        if data.get("version") != prior_version and not options.delete:
+        if prior_version and data.get("version") != prior_version and not options.delete:
             raise FreecodeSessionException("Version conflict in options.")
         # Hidden flag special handling
         if "hidden_from_frontpage" in data:
-- 
2.43.0