AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

[daris]

Remote Path: /
Use SSL? n
Should I write ftp details to .git/ftpdata? y
INFO: Base directory is /
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/programista/bin/git-ftp.py", line 489, in <module>
        main()
    File "/Users/programista/bin/git-ftp.py", line 163, in main
        gitftpignore = os.path.join(repo.working_dir, options.ftp.gitftpignore)
    File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 75, in join
        if b.startswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

I got this after configuring ftp details. Running again git-ftp.py worked (it uploaded new changes). OSX Yosemite

[muellermartin]

I can confirm this bug and it's still not fixed.

It seems the variable options.ftp.gitftpignore in line 163 is set to None when the interactive configuration finished. I'm pretty sure this can be resolved by setting options.ftp.gitftpignore to a default value solves the error. A close look into the code reveals that the function get_ftp_creds() does only set a default value if the config file exists, which explains the symptoms.

Maybe I'll prepare a pull request, but this project seems somewhat dead, so I have no hope it will get merged, which would be a waste of time.