Solved: Address build error related to overwritten 'setup.cfg'

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Following r26470, we update the version of setuptools used in Slicer, as a side effect you may get an error like the one reported below.

To address the problem

cd Slicer-Superbuild/python-setuptools
git reset --hard  HEAD

Error:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
	setup.cfg
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
CMake Error at /home/jcfr/Projects/Slicer-2-Qt5-VTK8-build/python-setuptools-prefix/tmp/python-setuptools-gitupdate.cmake:147 (message):
  Failed to checkout tag:
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I’m getting this error too frequently and it is quite annoying. Would it be possible to patch the file outside the source tree or somehow suppress this error automatically?

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We could also make a release and download a zip of the version of setuptools.

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Yes, that would work.

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@jcfr Could you please address this issue? I use scripts for building Slicer and this bug keeps making those fail and require me to go manually and fix the problem. I’ve also added a ticket to track its resolution: https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4466

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@jcfr has fixed the problem in recent nightly version.

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