This time, use test-requirements.

.travis.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ install:
   - python --version; git --version
   - git submodule update --init --recursive
   - git fetch --tags
+  - pip install -r requirements.txt
   - pip install -r test-requirements.txt
   - pip install codecov sphinx
 

git/compat.py

@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
 is_win = (os.name == 'nt')
 is_posix = (os.name == 'posix')
 is_darwin = (os.name == 'darwin')
-defenc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
+if hasattr(sys, 'getfilesystemencoding'):
+    defenc = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+if defenc is None:
+    defenc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
 
 if PY3:
     import io

git/repo/base.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # This module is part of GitPython and is released under
 # the BSD License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
 
+from builtins import str
 from collections import namedtuple
 import logging
 import os

requirements.txt

@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 gitdb2 (>=2.0.0)
+gitdb>=0.6.4
+ddt>=1.1.1
+future>=0.9