Return bytes if object name can't be utf8-decoded

Signed-off-by: Tim Van Steenburgh <tvansteenburgh@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git/objects/fun.py b/git/objects/fun.py
index 9b0a377c..8c380644 100644
--- a/git/objects/fun.py
+++ b/git/objects/fun.py
@@ -70,9 +70,13 @@ def tree_entries_from_data(data):
 		# default encoding for strings in git is utf8
 		# Only use the respective unicode object if the byte stream was encoded
 		name = data[ns:i]
-		name_enc = name.decode("utf-8")
-		if len(name) > len(name_enc):
-			name = name_enc
+                try:
+                        name_enc = name.decode("utf-8")
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                        pass
+                else:
+                        if len(name) > len(name_enc):
+                                name = name_enc
 		# END handle encoding
 		
 		# byte is NULL, get next 20