From ffc2b56b05e31c0a1a8763194ab7fbccd658667a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Campbell <pcampbell@kemitix.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:32:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] GitDBRepo.readValue now returns String

---
 src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBBranch.java | 3 +--
 src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBRepo.java   | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBBranch.java b/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBBranch.java
index b879d3b..7feb860 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBBranch.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBBranch.java
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ public class GitDBBranch {
      * @throws IOException if there was an error reading the value
      */
     public Optional<String> get(final String key) throws IOException {
-        return gitDBRepo.readValue(branchRef, KEY_PREFIX + key)
-                .map(String::new);
+        return gitDBRepo.readValue(branchRef, KEY_PREFIX + key);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBRepo.java b/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBRepo.java
index a9d4c90..d5ae37c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBRepo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/kemitix/gitdb/GitDBRepo.java
@@ -165,14 +165,15 @@ class GitDBRepo {
      * @return an Optional containing the value if found, or empty
      * @throws IOException if there was an error reading the value
      */
-    Optional<byte[]> readValue(
+    Optional<String> readValue(
             final Ref branchRef,
             final String key
     ) throws IOException {
         try (TreeWalk treeWalk = getTreeWalk(branchRef)) {
             treeWalk.setFilter(PathFilter.create(key));
             if (treeWalk.next()) {
-                return Optional.of(repository.open(treeWalk.getObjectId(0), Constants.OBJ_BLOB).getBytes());
+                return Optional.of(new String(
+                        repository.open(treeWalk.getObjectId(0), Constants.OBJ_BLOB).getBytes()));
             }
         }
         return Optional.empty();