gclient recurse fails if .gclient_entries doesn't exist.

gclient.py

 #!/usr/bin/python
 # Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """Meta checkout manager supporting both Subversion and GIT.
 
 Files
   .gclient      : Current client configuration, written by 'config' command.
                   Format is a Python script defining 'solutions', a list whose
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 def CMDrecurse(parser, args):
   """Operates on all the entries.
 
   Runs a shell command on all entries.
   """
   # Stop parsing at the first non-arg so that these go through to the command
   parser.disable_interspersed_args()
   parser.add_option('-s', '--scm', action='append', default=[],
                     help='choose scm types to operate upon')
   options, args = parser.parse_args(args)
-  root, entries = gclient_utils.GetGClientRootAndEntries()
+  root_and_entries = gclient_utils.GetGClientRootAndEntries()
+  if not root_and_entries:
+    print >> sys.stderr, (
+        'You need to run gclient sync at least once to use \'recurse\'.\n'
+        'This is because .gclient_entries needs to exist and be up to date.')
+    return 1
+  root, entries = root_and_entries
   scm_set = set()
   for scm in options.scm:
     scm_set.update(scm.split(','))
 
   # Pass in the SCM type as an env variable
   env = os.environ.copy()
 
   for path, url in entries.iteritems():
     scm = gclient_scm.GetScmName(url)
     if scm_set and scm not in scm_set:
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     return CMDhelp(parser, argv)
   except gclient_utils.Error, e:
     print >> sys.stderr, 'Error: %s' % str(e)
     return 1
 
 
 if '__main__' == __name__:
   sys.exit(Main(sys.argv[1:]))
 
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