Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Under Python 3 'hasher.update(...)' must take a byte string and not a >> unicode string. Explicitly encode the argument to this method as UTF-8 >> so that this code works under Python 3. >> >> This moves the required Python version forward to 2.0. >> >> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > Hmph. So what happens when the path is _not_ encoded in UTF-8? Oh, my brain was not working. Forget this part, and sorry for the noise. We are not decoding a bytestring to an array of unicode characters, but going the other way around here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html