fix(repo): make it serializable with pickle

It's entirely untested if this repo still does the right thing,
but I'd think it does.

Fixes #504

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git/cmd.py b/git/cmd.py
index 62eef9e4..ceea2442 100644
--- a/git/cmd.py
+++ b/git/cmd.py
@@ -213,6 +213,17 @@ def handle_process_output(process, stdout_handler, stderr_handler, finalizer):
 
 def dashify(string):
     return string.replace('_', '-')
+    
+
+def slots_to_dict(self, exclude=()):
+    return dict((s, getattr(self, s)) for s in self.__slots__ if s not in exclude)
+    
+
+def dict_to_slots_and__excluded_are_none(self, d, excluded=()):
+    for k, v in d.items():
+        setattr(self, k, v)
+    for k in excluded:
+        setattr(self, k, None)
 
 ## -- End Utilities -- @}
 
@@ -235,7 +246,15 @@ class Git(LazyMixin):
     """
     __slots__ = ("_working_dir", "cat_file_all", "cat_file_header", "_version_info",
                  "_git_options", "_environment")
-
+                 
+    _excluded_ = ('cat_file_all', 'cat_file_header', '_version_info')
+    
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        return slots_to_dict(self, exclude=self._excluded_)
+        
+    def __setstate__(self, d):
+        dict_to_slots_and__excluded_are_none(self, d, excluded=self._excluded_)
+        
     # CONFIGURATION
     # The size in bytes read from stdout when copying git's output to another stream
     max_chunk_size = 1024 * 64