reduced usage of force_bytes as clients are expected to pass bytes.

It was useful for debugging though, maybe an explicit type assertions would
help others ?
As 'others' will be gitpython, I suppose I can handle it myself

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/gitdb/utils/encoding.py b/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
index 617b51c..2d03ad3 100644
--- a/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
+++ b/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ else:
     string_types = (basestring, )
     text_type = unicode
 
-def force_bytes(data, encoding="utf-8"):
+def force_bytes(data, encoding="ascii"):
     if isinstance(data, bytes):
         return data
 
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ def force_text(data, encoding="utf-8"):
     if isinstance(data, string_types):
         return data.decode(encoding)
 
-    if not isinstance(data, bytes):
-        assert False, "Shouldn't be here"
-        data = force_bytes(data, encoding)
-
     if compat.PY3:
         return text_type(data, encoding)
     else: