repo: these changes make Govind's latest changes pass the test cases

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/git/repo.py b/lib/git/repo.py
index 72291dc9..8b519c1c 100644
--- a/lib/git/repo.py
+++ b/lib/git/repo.py
@@ -27,9 +27,14 @@ class Repo(object):
         Returns
             ``GitPython.Repo``
         """
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            raise NoSuchPathError(path)
+
         self.git = Git(path)
-        epath = self.git.get_work_tree()
         self.path = self.git.get_git_dir()
+        if not self.path:
+            raise InvalidGitRepositoryError(path)
+        epath = self.git.get_work_tree()
 
         if os.path.exists(os.path.join(epath, '.git')):
             self.bare = False