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-rw-r--r--lib/git/remote.py11
-rw-r--r--test/testlib/helper.py7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/git/remote.py b/lib/git/remote.py
index 801dcd62..8442e809 100644
--- a/lib/git/remote.py
+++ b/lib/git/remote.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ from gitdb.util import (
join,
)
import re
+import os
__all__ = ('RemoteProgress', 'PushInfo', 'FetchInfo', 'Remote')
@@ -418,6 +419,16 @@ class Remote(LazyMixin, Iterable):
self.repo = repo
self.name = name
+ if os.name == 'nt':
+ # some oddity: on windows, python 2.5, it for some reason does not realize
+ # that it has the config_writer property, but instead calls __getattr__
+ # which will not yield the expected results. 'pinging' the members
+ # with a dir call creates the config_writer property that we require
+ # ... bugs like these make me wonder wheter python really wants to be used
+ # for production. It doesn't happen on linux though.
+ dir(self)
+ # END windows special handling
+
def __getattr__(self, attr):
"""Allows to call this instance like
remote.special( *args, **kwargs) to call git-remote special self.name"""
diff --git a/test/testlib/helper.py b/test/testlib/helper.py
index 49a01bf7..b5b6fad7 100644
--- a/test/testlib/helper.py
+++ b/test/testlib/helper.py
@@ -188,13 +188,6 @@ def with_rw_and_rw_remote_repo(working_tree_ref):
d_remote.fetch()
remote_repo_url = "git://localhost%s" % remote_repo_dir
- # some oddity: on windows, python 2.5, it for some reason does not realize
- # that it has the config_writer property, but instead calls __getattr__
- # which will not yield the expected results. 'pinging' the members
- # with a dir call creates the config_writer property that we require
- # ... bugs like these make me wonder wheter python really wants to be used
- # for production. It doesn't happen on linux though.
- dir(d_remote)
d_remote.config_writer.set('url', remote_repo_url)
# try to list remotes to diagnoes whether the server is up