From 0f48294a6ec1b93f40b255647e6b51338e2d139e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jochen Sprickerhof <git@jochen.sprickerhof.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:44:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use old python-git exception API for getref

The is_valid_object method is not even in Debian bullseye.
---
 fdroidserver/common.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fdroidserver/common.py b/fdroidserver/common.py
index 16315376..3b2da2a1 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/common.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/common.py
@@ -1253,9 +1253,10 @@ class vcs_git(vcs):
     def getref(self, revname='HEAD'):
         self.checkrepo()
         repo = git.Repo(self.local)
-        if not repo.is_valid_object(revname):
+        try:
+            return repo.commit(revname).hexsha
+        except git.BadName:
             return None
-        return repo.commit(revname).hexsha
 
 
 class vcs_gitsvn(vcs):