Hello everyone,

I am using GitPython in my project and I use Pylance/mypy with the strict type checking settings. This setting is pretty important for my project's sanity.

As I've been using methods from GitPython that make uses of paths, I've been getting the following errors:

As you can notice, what raises this error is PathLike[Unknown], defined in git.types.PathLike. (Source file & lines)

After further investigation, I've found out that this is because os.PathLike is considered as a generic class (Like typing.List, typing.Dict and so on)

The fix is fairly simple, as it is to simply allow str for PathLike, which gives this result: os.PathLike[str]

(awesome! This issue's no longer a thing with this fix!)

There has some discussion about the same situation on this StackOverflow page: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69680089/13720113

I can make a PR for fixing this (Of course, with some testing, since there is Python version checks), as long as this issue is approved.

Thank you, hoping this issue get sorted soon!