From bb5bb39cc4b15b7fbecf564494e475fd67c66ee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Praveen Krishna <pkrishn@google.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:03:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ignore deleted files in verify-toc-vs-template.sh

---
 hack/verify-toc-vs-template.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hack/verify-toc-vs-template.sh b/hack/verify-toc-vs-template.sh
index 886ad99f40fe..0928a2a3c7e7 100755
--- a/hack/verify-toc-vs-template.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-toc-vs-template.sh
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ result=0
 kep_readmes=()
 while IFS= read -r changed_file
 do
-    # make sure to ignore the template kep itself, we don't want to self-diff
-    if [[ "${changed_file}" == "keps"*"README.md" ]] && [[ "${changed_file}" != "${template_readme}" ]]; then
+    # make sure to ignore the template kep itself, we don't want to self-diff. Ignore deleted files.
+    if [[ "${changed_file}" == "keps"*"README.md" ]] && [[ "${changed_file}" != "${template_readme}" ]] && [[ -f "${changed_file}" ]]; then
         kep_readmes+=("${changed_file}")
     fi
 done < <(git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r "${base}".."${target}")