repo: added test with some basic assertions for empty repositories these

repo.is_dirty: Will not fail on empty repo ( anymore )
index.entries: will just be empty if the repository is empty
refs: added to_full_path method which can be used to create fully synthetic instances of Reference types, added a test for it

Converted all touched files to spaces, which is why git reports so many changed files. Actually I was thinking every file would use spaces, but apparently not

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/git/test_refs.py b/test/git/test_refs.py
index 3d85356f..58a51f4a 100644
--- a/test/git/test_refs.py
+++ b/test/git/test_refs.py
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ import os
 
 class TestRefs(TestBase):
 
+    def test_from_path(self):
+        # should be able to create any reference directly
+        for ref_type in ( Reference, Head, TagReference, RemoteReference ):
+            for name in ('rela_name', 'path/rela_name'):
+                full_path = ref_type.to_full_path(name)
+                instance = ref_type.from_path(self.rorepo, full_path)
+                assert isinstance(instance, ref_type)
+            # END for each name 
+        # END for each type
+    
     def test_tag_base(self):
         tag_object_refs = list()
         for tag in self.rorepo.tags: