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[fscherf]

Hi @Byron,

I am a co-worker of @Farom and we need his PR #801 merged for one of our future projects. He had no time to add the last feedback so i edited his patch.

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Merging #808 into master will increase coverage by 13.56%.
The diff coverage is 85.71%.

@@ Coverage Diff @@## master #808 +/- ##
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+ Coverage 80.24% 93.8% +13.56% 
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Files 59 59 Lines 11067 9386 -1681 ==========================================
- Hits 8881 8805 -76 + Misses 2186 581 -1605

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
git/repo/base.py	94.38% <85.71%> (+17.21%)	⬆️
git/compat.py	54.32% <0%> (-3.7%)	⬇️
git/test/test_fun.py	97.84% <0%> (-1.08%)	⬇️
git/test/test_base.py	96.42% <0%> (+1.02%)	⬆️
git/refs/head.py	98.9% <0%> (+1.07%)	⬆️
git/test/test_config.py	98.33% <0%> (+1.61%)	⬆️
git/exc.py	96.42% <0%> (+1.69%)	⬆️
git/repo/fun.py	92.02% <0%> (+2.33%)	⬆️
git/objects/base.py	95.83% <0%> (+3.83%)	⬆️
git/index/util.py	90.69% <0%> (+4.03%)	⬆️
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[fscherf]

i know the tests fail, but is this my fault? Both fails seem like ci config problems.

[Byron]

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks a lot for the contribution.

I do hope to get the tests fixed at some point, being in a red state for too long makes me quite fearful of merging more than typo-fixes in future.