Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph

Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/git_remote_helpers/git/importer.py b/git_remote_helpers/git/importer.py
index 5c6b595e16..d3f90e1024 100644
--- a/git_remote_helpers/git/importer.py
+++ b/git_remote_helpers/git/importer.py
@@ -18,13 +18,16 @@ class GitImporter(object):
 
     def get_refs(self, gitdir):
         """Returns a dictionary with refs.
+
+        Note that the keys in the returned dictionary are byte strings as
+        read from git.
         """
         args = ["git", "--git-dir=" + gitdir, "for-each-ref", "refs/heads"]
-        lines = check_output(args).strip().split('\n')
+        lines = check_output(args).strip().split('\n'.encode('ascii'))
         refs = {}
         for line in lines:
-            value, name = line.split(' ')
-            name = name.strip('commit\t')
+            value, name = line.split(' '.encode('ascii'))
+            name = name.strip('commit\t'.encode('ascii'))
             refs[name] = value
         return refs
 
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ class GitImporter(object):
             gitdir = self.repo.gitpath
         else:
             gitdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirname, '.git'))
-        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirname, 'git.marks'))
+        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirname, 'testgit.marks'))
 
         if not os.path.exists(dirname):
             os.makedirs(dirname)