fix(index):allow adding non-unicode paths to index

This issue only surfaced in python 2, in case paths containing unicode
characters were not actual unicode objects.

In python 3, this was never the issue.

Closes #331

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git/test/test_index.py b/git/test/test_index.py
index 2fd53f65..39788575 100644
--- a/git/test/test_index.py
+++ b/git/test/test_index.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from git.exc import (
 )
 from git import (
     IndexFile,
+    Repo,
     BlobFilter,
     UnmergedEntriesError,
     Tree,
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ from git.index.typ import (
     IndexEntry
 )
 from git.index.fun import hook_path
+from gitdb.test.lib import with_rw_directory
 
 
 class TestIndex(TestBase):
@@ -780,3 +782,14 @@ class TestIndex(TestBase):
         except InvalidGitRepositoryError:
             asserted = True
         assert asserted, "Adding using a filename is not correctly asserted."
+
+    @with_rw_directory
+    def test_add_utf8P_path(self, rw_dir):
+        # NOTE: fp is not a Unicode object in python 2 (which is the source of the problem)
+        fp = os.path.join(rw_dir, 'ø.txt')
+        with open(fp, 'w') as fs:
+            fs.write('content of ø')
+
+        r = Repo.init(rw_dir)
+        r.index.add([fp])
+        r.index.commit('Added orig and prestable')