Do not try to add an entry if none exist (#37152) (#37213)

When commit revisions are disabled, there will be no revision items returned.
Add note about setting ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT to a higer value to avoid timeouts.

(cherry picked from commit 3134ba6bee)

changelogs/fragments/edgeos_facts_empty_commit_history.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - edgeos_facts - fix error when there are no commit revisions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37123)

lib/ansible/modules/network/edgeos/edgeos_config.py

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ description:
     in the device configuration.
 notes:
   - Tested against EdgeOS 1.9.7
+  - Setting C(ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT) to 30 is recommended since
+    the save command can take longer than the default of 10 seconds on
+    some EdgeOS hardware.
 options:
   lines:
     description:

lib/ansible/modules/network/edgeos/edgeos_facts.py

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ class Config(FactsBase):
                              by=str(match.group(3)).strip(),
                              via=str(match.group(4)).strip(),
                              comment=None)
-            else:
+            elif entry:
                 entry['comment'] = line.strip()
 
         self.facts['commits'] = entries