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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Unicode characters in branch name","articleBody":"Hi! I an trying to get diffs using GitPython, and i have an issue when branch name have unicode characters.\r\n\r\nHere is repo where bug can be reproduced:\r\nhttps://github.com/timqsh/test_git_python\r\nbranch:\r\nМояВетка\r\n\r\nwhen i run this code:\r\n```\r\nrepo = git.Repo('.')\r\nHEAD = repo.head.commit\r\n```\r\n\r\ni get this error:\r\n```\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \".\\test.py\", line 4, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n    HEAD = repo.head.commit\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\kushukov\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\git\\refs\\symbolic.py\", line 200, in _get_commit\r\n    obj = self._get_object()\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\kushukov\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\git\\refs\\symbolic.py\", line 193, in _get_object\r\n    return Object.new_from_sha(self.repo, hex_to_bin(self.dereference_recursive(self.repo, self.path)))\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\kushukov\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\git\\refs\\symbolic.py\", line 135, in dereference_recursive\r\n    hexsha, ref_path = cls._get_ref_info(repo, ref_path)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\kushukov\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\git\\refs\\symbolic.py\", line 184, in _get_ref_info\r\n    return cls._get_ref_info_helper(repo, ref_path)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\kushukov\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\lib\\site-packages\\git\\refs\\symbolic.py\", line 167, in _get_ref_info_helper\r\n    raise ValueError(\"Reference at %r does not exist\" % ref_path)\r\nValueError: Reference at 'refs/heads/Р\\u045aР\\u0455С\\u040fР\\u2019Р\\xb5С\\u201aРєР°' does not exist\r\n```\r\nI am testing this on Windows 10.\r\n\r\nforgot to add:\r\nGitPython 2.1.10","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timqsh","@type":"Person","name":"timqsh"},"datePublished":"2018-06-19T13:02:34.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/774/GitPython/issues/774"}