@with_rw_repo('0.1.6')
def test_add_unicode(self, rw_repo):
    filename = u"שלום.txt"

    file_path = os.path.join(rw_repo.working_dir, filename)
    open(file_path, "wb").write('something')

    rw_repo.index.add([filename])
    self.assert_entries([filename])

I get a UnicodeEncodeError in IndexFileSHA1Writer.write, and if I pass filename.encode('utf8') then it simply cannot find the file. I guess I could figure out what the current locale encoding is and pass the correct thing, but... thats a terrible solution, and only solves the problem when the local encoding is able to encode the filename. Also, I'm sure it would create different problems.

@with_rw_repo('0.1.6')
def test_add_unicode(self, rw_repo):
    filename = u"שלום.txt"

    file_path = os.path.join(rw_repo.working_dir, filename)
    open(file_path, "wb").write('something')

    rw_repo.git.add(rw_repo.working_dir)
    rw_repo.index.commit('message')

Gives something like:

File "e:\projects\galago\gitimporter\tests.py", line 50, in add_files_to_repo
repo.index.commit(message)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\index\base.py", line 887, in commit
return Commit.create_from_tree(self.repo, tree, message, parent_commits, head)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\objects\commit.py", line 358, in create_from_tree
master = git.refs.Head.create(repo, repo.head.ref, new_commit, logmsg="commit (initial): %s" % message)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\refs\symbolic.py", line 505, in create
return cls._create(repo, path, cls._resolve_ref_on_create, reference, force, logmsg)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\refs\symbolic.py", line 472, in _create
ref.set_reference(target, logmsg)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\refs\symbolic.py", line 307, in set_reference
self.log_append(oldbinsha, logmsg)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\refs\symbolic.py", line 360, in log_append
message)
File "c:\Users\User.virtualenvs\galago\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.2.rc1-py2.7.egg\git\refs\log.py", line 257, in append_entry
fd.write(repr(entry))

Windows 7, Python 2.7, GitPython 3.2.1.rc1