From 97207604d790237c467626a9815bdd673434686c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jinzhe Zeng <jinzhe.zeng@rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:25:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ssh: recover default remote_root to None (#381)

Fix regression caused by #370.

Signed-off-by: Jinzhe Zeng <jinzhe.zeng@rutgers.edu>
---
 dpdispatcher/ssh_context.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dpdispatcher/ssh_context.py b/dpdispatcher/ssh_context.py
index c54acb46..cf67a62d 100644
--- a/dpdispatcher/ssh_context.py
+++ b/dpdispatcher/ssh_context.py
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ def __init__(
         assert os.path.isabs(remote_root), "remote_root must be a abspath"
         self.temp_remote_root = remote_root
         self.remote_profile = remote_profile
-        self.remote_root = ""
+        self.remote_root = None
 
         # self.job_uuid = None
         self.clean_asynchronously = clean_asynchronously
@@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ def download(
         mark_failure=True,
         back_error=False,
     ):
+        assert self.remote_root is not None
         self.ssh_session.ensure_alive()
         file_list = []
         # for ii in job_dirs :