This should help getting travis to work, finally

Author: Byron

.travis.yml

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ install:
   # as commits are performed with the default user, it needs to be set for travis too
   - git config --global user.email "travis@ci.com"
   - git config --global user.name "Travis Runner"
+
+  # debugging
+  - tree .git/logs
+  - cat .git/logs/HEAD
 script: 
   - nosetests -v --with-coverage
 after_success:

git/test/test_git.py

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def test_options_are_passed_to_git(self):
 
     def test_single_char_git_options_are_passed_to_git(self):
         input_value = 'TestValue'
-        output_value = self.git(c='user.name={}'.format(input_value)).config('--get', 'user.name')
+        output_value = self.git(c='user.name=%s' % input_value).config('--get', 'user.name')
         self.assertEquals(input_value, output_value)
 
     def test_change_to_transform_kwargs_does_not_break_command_options(self):