IndexObject: assured that .path fields are relative to the repository ( previously it would just be a name )

added abspath property and name property to provide easy access to most common paths of an index object

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/git/objects/base.py b/lib/git/objects/base.py
index 6dd03ba4..b0989a43 100644
--- a/lib/git/objects/base.py
+++ b/lib/git/objects/base.py
@@ -196,3 +196,20 @@ class IndexObject(Object):
 		# END for each char
 		return mode
 		
+	@property
+	def name(self):
+		"""
+		Returns
+			Name portion of the path, effectively being the basename
+		"""
+		return os.path.basename(self.path)
+		
+	@property
+	def abspath(self):
+		"""
+		Returns
+			Absolute path to this index object in the file system ( as opposed to the 
+			.path field which is a path relative to the git repository )
+		"""
+		return os.path.join(self.repo.git.git_dir, self.path)
+