diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ef1b4eb108..f6ec426614 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Registrator"
 uuid = "4418983a-e44d-11e8-3aec-9789530b3b3e"
 authors = ["Stefan Karpinski <stefan@karpinski.org>"]
-version = "1.9.5"
+version = "1.9.6"
 
 [deps]
 AutoHashEquals = "15f4f7f2-30c1-5605-9d31-71845cf9641f"
diff --git a/src/webui/gitutils.jl b/src/webui/gitutils.jl
index 13b52a8850..4c4b8e73d0 100644
--- a/src/webui/gitutils.jl
+++ b/src/webui/gitutils.jl
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ function gettreesha(
                 run(Cmd(Cmd(String["git", "clone", "--bare", string(url), dest]); env))
             end
             # let Cmd interpolate strings safely
-            readchomp(Cmd(String["git", "-C", dest, "rev-parse", "$ref:$subdir"]))
+            readchomp(Cmd(String["git", "-C", dest, "rev-parse", "$ref:$subdir"])), ""
         end
     catch ex
         @error "Exception while getting tree SHA" exception=(ex, catch_backtrace())
diff --git a/test/webui/gitutils.jl b/test/webui/gitutils.jl
index 6b8f47cac7..e81adeff53 100644
--- a/test/webui/gitutils.jl
+++ b/test/webui/gitutils.jl
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@ restoreconfig!()
     org = GitHub.User(login="JuliaLang")
 
     public_repo_of_org = GitHub.Repo(name="Example.jl", private=false, owner=org, organization=org, permissions = GitHub.Permissions(admin = true, push = false, pull = true), clone_url="https://github.com/JuliaLang/Example.jl.git")
-    example_master_treesha = Base.redirect_stderr(devnull) do
+    example_master_treesha, err = Base.redirect_stderr(devnull) do
         Registrator.WebUI.gettreesha(public_repo_of_org, "master", "")
     end
     @test length(example_master_treesha) == 40
+    @test err == ""
 
     ret, err = Base.redirect_stderr(devnull) do
         Registrator.WebUI.gettreesha(public_repo_of_org, "mas ter", "")