Use NUL character to extract meta and path from git diff

Use NUL character instead of semicolon to extract meta and path. Avoid errors in during git diff when dealing with filenames containing semicolons

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git/diff.py b/git/diff.py
index cea66d7e..c8c57685 100644
--- a/git/diff.py
+++ b/git/diff.py
@@ -509,9 +509,9 @@ class Diff(object):
     def _handle_diff_line(lines_bytes: bytes, repo: 'Repo', index: DiffIndex) -> None:
         lines = lines_bytes.decode(defenc)
 
-        for line in lines.split(':')[1:]:
-            meta, _, path = line.partition('\x00')
-            path = path.rstrip('\x00')
+        it = iter(lines.split('\x00'))
+        for meta, path in zip(it, it):
+            meta = meta[1:]
             a_blob_id: Optional[str]
             b_blob_id: Optional[str]
             old_mode, new_mode, a_blob_id, b_blob_id, _change_type = meta.split(None, 4)