title: AttributeError: StrictVersion instance has no attribute 'version' with missing git-review file
body: <p>I'm running a script on a legacy build system, and I'm getting the error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/version.py", line 140, in <strong>cmp</strong><br>
         compare = cmp(self.version, other.version)<br>
    AttributeError: StrictVersion instance has no attribute 'version'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I've found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14293727/how-do-i-fix-strictversion-instance-has-no-attribute-version-in-git-review">this question</a> which says to remove the file at</p>
  
  <p><code>~/.config/git-review/latest-version</code></p>
  
  <p>and it will be automatically generated. The problem is I have no file here, in fact I don't even have a directory at <code>~/.config/git-review</code></p>
  
  <p>How do I go about fixing this? Can the git-review file be (re)created in some way?</p>
  
  <p>git version is 1.7.9.5</p>