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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"GitPython is unaware of mergetags","articleBody":"Parsing of a mergetag crashes GitPython\n\n```\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/bin/git-hp\", line 5, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    pkg_resources.run_script('hpgit==unknown-version', 'git-hp')\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 540, in run_script\n    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 1455, in run_script\n    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/git-hp\", line 23, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    main(argv)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/main.py\", line 145, in main\n    args.func(args)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/commands/import_upstream.py\", line 551, in do_import_upstream\n    if len(strategy) == 0:\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/commands/import_upstream.py\", line 447, in __len__\n    self.data = self._popdata()\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/commands/import_upstream.py\", line 471, in _popdata\n    return self.searcher.list()\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/lib/searchers.py\", line 312, in list\n    return super(UpstreamMergeBaseSearcher, self).list()\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/lib/searchers.py\", line 93, in list\n    commits = list(commit_list)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hpgit-unknown_version-py2.7.egg/ghp/lib/searchers.py\", line 417, in filter\n    if any(parent.hexsha == self.stop for parent in commit.parents):\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gitdb-0.5.4-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg/gitdb/util.py\", line 238, in __getattr__\n    self._set_cache_(attr)\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/objects/commit.py\", line 132, in _set_cache_\n    self._deserialize(StringIO(stream.read()))\n  File \"/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/objects/commit.py\", line 443, in _deserialize\n    self.author.name = self.author.name.decode(self.encoding) \nLookupError: unknown encoding: object 8e6b9e900d1fb2db987888c23394bab6b350c5fc\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dguerri","@type":"Person","name":"dguerri"},"datePublished":"2013-12-06T14:46:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/128/GitPython/issues/128"}