commit: refactored existing code to decode commits from streams - performance is slightly better

git.cmd: added method to provide access to the content stream directly. This is more efficient if large objects are handled, if it is actually used
test.helpers: removed unnecessary code

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/git/objects/utils.py b/lib/git/objects/utils.py
index 7060e293..6d378a72 100644
--- a/lib/git/objects/utils.py
+++ b/lib/git/objects/utils.py
@@ -280,3 +280,20 @@ class Traversable(object):
 	
 			addToStack( stack, item, branch_first, nd )
 		# END for each item on work stack
+		
+
+class Serializable(object):
+	"""Defines methods to serialize and deserialize objects from and into a data stream"""
+	
+	def _serialize(self, stream):
+		"""Serialize the data of this object into the given data stream
+		:note: a serialized object would ``_deserialize`` into the same objet
+		:param stream: a file-like object
+		:return: self"""
+		raise NotImplementedError("To be implemented in subclass")
+		
+	def _deserialize(self, stream):
+		"""Deserialize all information regarding this object from the stream
+		:param stream: a file-like object
+		:return: self"""
+		raise NotImplementedError("To be implemented in subclass")