@@ -32,12 +32,11 @@ Object
 
 Config
 ------
-* Expand .get* methods of GitConfigParser to support default value. If it is not None, 
-  it will be returned instead of raising. This way the class will be much more usable, 
-  and ... I truly hate this config reader as it is so 'old' style. Its not even a new-style
-  class yet showing that it must be ten years old.
-  - If you are at it, why not start a new project that reimplements the ConfigWriter
-  properly, honestly. Tune it for usability ... .
+* Cache the config_reader of the repository and check whether they need to 
+  update their information as the local file(s) have changed. Currently
+  we re-read all configuration data each time a config-reader is created.
+  In a way this leaves it to the user to actually keep the config-reader for 
+  multiple uses, but there are cases when the user can hardly do that.
 
 Diff
 ----
 
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 from git.stats import Stats
 from git.remote import *
 from git.index import *
+from git.utils import LockFile, BlockingLockFile
 
 __all__ = [ name for name, obj in locals().items()
 			if not (name.startswith('_') or inspect.ismodule(obj)) ]
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ def execute(self, command,
 
 		# Wait for the process to return
 		status = 0
+		stdout_value = ''
+		stderr_value = ''
 		try:
 			if output_stream is None:
 				stdout_value = proc.stdout.read().rstrip()		# strip trailing "\n"
@@ -232,6 +234,7 @@ def execute(self, command,
 				stdout_value = output_stream
 			# END stdout handling
 			stderr_value = proc.stderr.read().rstrip()			# strip trailing "\n"
+			
 			# waiting here should do nothing as we have finished stream reading
 			status = proc.wait()
 		finally:
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 from errors import GitCommandError
 from git.objects import Blob, Tree, Object, Commit
-from git.utils import SHA1Writer, LazyMixin, ConcurrentWriteOperation, join_path_native, BlockingLockFile
+from git.utils import SHA1Writer, LazyMixin, ConcurrentWriteOperation, join_path_native
 
 
 class CheckoutError( Exception ):
@@ -914,6 +914,7 @@ def add(self, items, force=True, fprogress=lambda *args: None):
 		entries_added = list()
 		paths, entries = self._preprocess_add_items(items)
 
+		
 		# HANDLE PATHS 
 		if paths:
 			# to get suitable progress information, pipe paths to stdin 
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def __init__(self, config, section):
 
 	def __getattr__(self, attr):
 		if attr in self._valid_attrs_:
-			return lambda *args: self._call_config(attr, *args)
+			return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_config(attr, *args, **kwargs)
 		return super(_SectionConstraint,self).__getattribute__(attr)
 
 	def _call_config(self, method, *args, **kwargs):