Issue Link

#133441

Commit Hash

3321021

Target

stable

PR Link

#133818

Changelog Description

This fixes a regression to flutter upgrade that would result in an error stating "Unknown Flutter tag" unless either the user's current working directory or they run with the --force flag.

Impacted Users

All Flutter developers upgrading their SDK via flutter upgrade.

Impact Description

Users issuing flutter upgrade on any 3.13 (3.14 releases are also affected, but will be hotfixed independently) release between beta 3.13.0-0.1.pre and stable 3.13.2 (hopefully this hotfix will make it into 3.13.3) will get an error.

Workaround

Use flutter upgrade --force or change your working directory to your Flutter SDK checkout before running flutter upgrade.

Risk

medium

Test Coverage

yes

Validation Steps

once this fix is on stable:

1. commit an empty commit git commit --allow-empty -m 'empty commit'
2. reset to the previous commit git reset --hard HEAD~1
3. change to a directory NOT within the Flutter SDK cd $HOME
4. run flutter upgrade. This should succeed if the fix works.