GitPython is unaware of mergetags

[dguerri]

Parsing of a mergetag crashes GitPython

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/bin/git-hp", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('hpgit==unknown-version', 'git-hp')
  File "/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 540, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/Users/davide/Developer/HP/ve-hpgit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1455, in run_script
    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
  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 <module>
    main(argv)
  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
    args.func(args)
  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
    if len(strategy) == 0:
  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__
    self.data = self._popdata()
  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
    return self.searcher.list()
  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
    return super(UpstreamMergeBaseSearcher, self).list()
  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
    commits = list(commit_list)
  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
    if any(parent.hexsha == self.stop for parent in commit.parents):
  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__
    self._set_cache_(attr)
  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_
    self._deserialize(StringIO(stream.read()))
  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
    self.author.name = self.author.name.decode(self.encoding) 
LookupError: unknown encoding: object 8e6b9e900d1fb2db987888c23394bab6b350c5fc

[Byron]

The fix is now available in v0.3.2 on pypi.