def tree_entries_from_data(data):
    ord_zero = ord('0')
    space_ord = ord(' ')
    len_data = len(data)
    i = 0
    out = list()
    while i < len_data:
        mode = 0

        # read mode
        # Some git versions truncate the leading 0, some don't
        # The type will be extracted from the mode later
        while byte_ord(data[i]) != space_ord:
            # move existing mode integer up one level being 3 bits
            # and add the actual ordinal value of the character
            mode = (mode << 3) + (byte_ord(data[i]) - ord_zero)
            i += 1
        # END while reading mode

        # byte is space now, skip it
        i += 1

        # parse name, it is NULL separated

        ns = i
        while byte_ord(data[i]) != 0:
            i += 1
        # END while not reached NULL

        # default encoding for strings in git is utf8
        # Only use the respective unicode object if the byte stream was encoded
        name = data[ns:i]
        try:
            name = name.decode(defenc)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            pass
        # END handle encoding

        # byte is NULL, get next 20
        i += 1
        sha = data[i:i + 20]
        i = i + 20
        out.append((sha, mode, name))
    # END for each byte in data stream
    return out
Reads the binary representation of a tree and returns tuples of Tree items
dataset/ETHPy150Open gitpython-developers/GitPython/git/objects/fun.py/tree_entries_from_data