Remove and replace compat.text_type

git/compat.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 
 from gitdb.utils.encoding import (
-    text_type,       # @UnusedImport
     force_bytes,     # @UnusedImport
     force_text       # @UnusedImport
 )

git/objects/commit.py

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     parse_actor_and_date,
     from_timestamp,
 )
-from git.compat import text_type
 
 from time import (
     time,
@@ -436,7 +435,7 @@ def _serialize(self, stream):
         write(b"\n")
 
         # write plain bytes, be sure its encoded according to our encoding
-        if isinstance(self.message, text_type):
+        if isinstance(self.message, str):
             write(self.message.encode(self.encoding))
         else:
             write(self.message)

git/objects/fun.py

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 from stat import S_ISDIR
 from git.compat import (
     safe_decode,
-    defenc,
-    text_type
+    defenc
 )
 
 __all__ = ('tree_to_stream', 'tree_entries_from_data', 'traverse_trees_recursive',
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ def tree_to_stream(entries, write):
         # hence we must convert to an utf8 string for it to work properly.
         # According to my tests, this is exactly what git does, that is it just
         # takes the input literally, which appears to be utf8 on linux.
-        if isinstance(name, text_type):
+        if isinstance(name, str):
             name = name.encode(defenc)
         write(b''.join((mode_str, b' ', name, b'\0', binsha)))
     # END for each item

git/repo/base.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     handle_process_output
 )
 from git.compat import (
-    text_type,
     defenc,
     safe_decode,
     is_win,
@@ -476,7 +475,7 @@ def commit(self, rev=None):
         :return: ``git.Commit``"""
         if rev is None:
             return self.head.commit
-        return self.rev_parse(text_type(rev) + "^0")
+        return self.rev_parse(str(rev) + "^0")
 
     def iter_trees(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """:return: Iterator yielding Tree objects
@@ -498,7 +497,7 @@ def tree(self, rev=None):
             operations might have unexpected results."""
         if rev is None:
             return self.head.commit.tree
-        return self.rev_parse(text_type(rev) + "^{tree}")
+        return self.rev_parse(str(rev) + "^{tree}")
 
     def iter_commits(self, rev=None, paths='', **kwargs):
         """A list of Commit objects representing the history of a given ref/commit

git/test/test_commit.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
     Actor,
 )
 from git import Repo
-from git.compat import text_type
 from git.objects.util import tzoffset, utc
 from git.repo.fun import touch
 from git.test.lib import (
@@ -142,7 +141,7 @@ def test_unicode_actor(self):
         self.assertEqual(len(name), 9)
         special = Actor._from_string(u"%s <[email protected]>" % name)
         self.assertEqual(special.name, name)
-        assert isinstance(special.name, text_type)
+        assert isinstance(special.name, str)
 
     def test_traversal(self):
         start = self.rorepo.commit("a4d06724202afccd2b5c54f81bcf2bf26dea7fff")
@@ -286,8 +285,8 @@ def test_serialization_unicode_support(self):
         # create a commit with unicode in the message, and the author's name
         # Verify its serialization and deserialization
         cmt = self.rorepo.commit('0.1.6')
-        assert isinstance(cmt.message, text_type)     # it automatically decodes it as such
-        assert isinstance(cmt.author.name, text_type)  # same here
+        assert isinstance(cmt.message, str)     # it automatically decodes it as such
+        assert isinstance(cmt.author.name, str)  # same here
 
         cmt.message = u"üäêèß"
         self.assertEqual(len(cmt.message), 5)