Merge branch 'revparse'

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/git/objects/base.py b/lib/git/objects/base.py
index d4a46788..41862ac2 100644
--- a/lib/git/objects/base.py
+++ b/lib/git/objects/base.py
@@ -49,10 +49,18 @@ class Object(LazyMixin):
 			
 		:note: This cannot be a __new__ method as it would always call __init__
 			with the input id which is not necessarily a binsha."""
-		hexsha, typename, size = repo.git.get_object_header(id)
-		inst = get_object_type_by_name(typename)(repo, hex_to_bin(hexsha))
-		inst.size = size
-		return inst
+		return repo.rev_parse(str(id))
+		
+	@classmethod
+	def new_from_sha(cls, repo, sha1):
+		"""
+		:return: new object instance of a type appropriate to represent the given 
+			binary sha1
+		:param sha1: 20 byte binary sha1"""
+		oinfo = repo.odb.info(sha1)
+		inst = get_object_type_by_name(oinfo.type)(repo, oinfo.binsha)
+		inst.size = oinfo.size
+		return inst 
 	
 	def _set_self_from_args_(self, args_dict):
 		"""Initialize attributes on self from the given dict that was retrieved