Repository.amend_commit with encoding=None

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start at the amend_commit entry point and the encoding_cstr assignment shown in the issue. Check how encoding=None is converted before the libgit2 commit call, then inspect any existing amend_commit tests. Done means amend_commit accepts None without the reported TypeError and preserves the supported no-encoding behavior.

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Description

Currently, it will raise TypeError: expected new array length or list/tuple/str, not _cffi_backend._CDataBase at encoding_cstr = ffi.new('char[]', to_bytes(encoding)) while libgit2 supports setting NULL and not setting encoding in the commit message

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