Merge pull request #450 from citrus-it/pydates

Fix .py timestamp derivation from git history

Author: hadfl

src/pydates

@@ -1159,12 +1159,11 @@ def __init__(self, dist):
                 # consistent across builds, causing their corresponding .pyc
                 # files to be unchanged unless the .py file content changed.
 
-                self.timestamps = {}
+                print("Gathering file timestamps from git history")
 
-                pydates = "pydates"
+                self.timestamps = {}
 
-                if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(pwd, "../.git")):
-                    pydates = "pydates.git"
+                pydates = "pydates.git"
 
                 p = subprocess.Popen(
                     os.path.join(pwd, pydates),
@@ -1257,7 +1256,8 @@ def copy_file(self, infile, outfile, preserve_mode=1, preserve_times=1,
                         src_mtime = self.timestamps[b"."]
                 else:
                         src_mtime = self.timestamps.get(
-                            os.path.join("src", infile), self.timestamps[b"."])
+                            os.path.join("src", infile).encode('utf-8'),
+                            self.timestamps[b"."])
 
                 # Force a copy of the file if the source timestamp is different
                 # from that of the destination, not just if it's newer.  This