From 0ca61d4c68dad68901f8a7364dd210ef27a8b4c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Jonas <jonas@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:51:40 -0500
Subject: Fixed the gzip archive creation using python gzip module (cherry
 picked from commit 160bd2bb74d88c110874c21635e24cc74ef58459)

---
 lib/git/repo.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/git/repo.py')

diff --git a/lib/git/repo.py b/lib/git/repo.py
index 2d0fb973..da18208c 100644
--- a/lib/git/repo.py
+++ b/lib/git/repo.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 import os
 import re
+import gzip
+import StringIO
 from errors import InvalidGitRepositoryError, NoSuchPathError
 from utils import touch, is_git_dir
 from cmd import Git
@@ -386,7 +388,12 @@ class Repo(object):
         kwargs = {}
         if prefix:
             kwargs['prefix'] = prefix
-        self.git.archive(treeish, "| gzip", **kwargs)
+        resultstr =  self.git.archive(treeish, **kwargs)
+        sio = StringIO.StringIO()
+        gf = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=sio, mode ='wb')
+        gf.write(resultstr)
+        gf.close()
+        return sio.getvalue()
 
     def _get_daemon_export(self):
         filename = os.path.join(self.path, self.DAEMON_EXPORT_FILE)
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