commit: initial version of commit_from_tree which could create commit objects if it could serialize itself

Author: Byron

Diff for: CHANGES

@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
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+0.2 Beta 2
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+ * Commit objects now carry the 'encoding' information of their message. It wasn't parsed previously, and defaults to UTF-8
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 0.2
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 General

Diff for: lib/git/objects/base.py

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ def stream_data(self, ostream):
         self.repo.git.cat_file(self.type, self.sha, output_stream=ostream)
         return self
 
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 class IndexObject(Object):
     """
     Base for all objects that can be part of the index file , namely Tree, Blob and