Fixed commit.count method which now handles the paths case properly. It appears git-rev-list uses empty paths in some way, which is quite hard to specify on a shell, but easy if the process is spawned directly

Author: Byron

lib/git/objects/commit.py

@@ -116,7 +116,13 @@ def count(self, paths='', **kwargs):
 		Returns
 			int
 		"""
-		return len(self.repo.git.rev_list(self.sha, '--', paths, **kwargs).strip().splitlines())
+		# yes, it makes a difference whether empty paths are given or not in our case
+		# as the empty paths version will ignore merge commits for some reason.
+		if paths:
+			return len(self.repo.git.rev_list(self.sha, '--', paths, **kwargs).splitlines())
+		else:
+			return len(self.repo.git.rev_list(self.sha, **kwargs).splitlines())
+		
 
 	@property
 	def name_rev(self):