@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ Please have a look at the [contributions file][contributing].
 
 [3-Clause BSD License](https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/), also known as the New BSD License. See the [LICENSE file][license].
 
-Two files exclusively used for fuzz testing are subject to [a separate license, detailed here](./fuzzing/README.md#license).
-These files are not included in the wheel or sdist packages published by the maintainers of GitPython.
+One file exclusively used for fuzz testing is subject to [a separate license, detailed here](./fuzzing/README.md#license).
+This file is not included in the wheel or sdist packages published by the maintainers of GitPython.
 
 [contributing]: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
 [license]: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/main/LICENSE
@@ -225,14 +225,14 @@ to [the official OSS-Fuzz documentation][oss-fuzz-docs].
 ## LICENSE
 
 All files located within the `fuzzing/` directory are subject to [the same license](../LICENSE)
-as [the other files in this repository](../README.md#license) with two exceptions:
-
-Two files located in this directory, [`fuzz_config.py`](./fuzz-targets/fuzz_config.py)
-and [`fuzz_tree.py`](./fuzz-targets/fuzz_tree.py), have been migrated here from the OSS-Fuzz project repository where
-they were originally created. As such, these two files retain their original license and copyright notice (Apache
-License, Version 2.0 and Copyright 2023 Google LLC respectively.) Each file includes a notice in their respective header
-comments stating that they have been modified. [LICENSE-APACHE](./LICENSE-APACHE) contains the original license used by
-the OSS-Fuzz project repository at the time they were migrated.
+as [the other files in this repository](../README.md#license) with one exception:
+
+[`fuzz_config.py`](./fuzz-targets/fuzz_config.py) was migrated to this repository from the OSS-Fuzz project's repository
+where it was originally created. As such, [`fuzz_config.py`](./fuzz-targets/fuzz_config.py) retains its original license
+and copyright notice (Apache License, Version 2.0 and Copyright 2023 Google LLC respectively) as in a header
+comment, followed by a notice stating that it has have been modified contributors to GitPython.
+[LICENSE-APACHE](./LICENSE-APACHE) contains the original license used by the OSS-Fuzz project repository at the time the
+file was migrated.
 
 [oss-fuzz-repo]: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import atheris
+import io
+import sys
+import os
+import tempfile
+
+if getattr(sys, "frozen", False) and hasattr(sys, "_MEIPASS"):
+    path_to_bundled_git_binary = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "git"))
+    os.environ["GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE"] = path_to_bundled_git_binary
+
+with atheris.instrument_imports():
+    import git
+
+
+def TestOneInput(data):
+    fdp = atheris.FuzzedDataProvider(data)
+
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
+        repo = git.Repo.init(path=temp_dir)
+
+        # Generate a minimal set of files based on fuzz data to minimize I/O operations.
+        file_paths = [os.path.join(temp_dir, f"File{i}") for i in range(min(3, fdp.ConsumeIntInRange(1, 3)))]
+        for file_path in file_paths:
+            with open(file_path, "wb") as f:
+                # The chosen upperbound for count of bytes we consume by writing to these
+                # files is somewhat arbitrary and may be worth experimenting with if the
+                # fuzzer coverage plateaus.
+                f.write(fdp.ConsumeBytes(fdp.ConsumeIntInRange(1, 512)))
+
+        repo.index.add(file_paths)
+        repo.index.commit(fdp.ConsumeUnicodeNoSurrogates(fdp.ConsumeIntInRange(1, 80)))
+
+        fuzz_tree = git.Tree(repo, git.Tree.NULL_BIN_SHA, 0, "")
+
+        try:
+            fuzz_tree._deserialize(io.BytesIO(data))
+        except IndexError:
+            return -1
+
+
+def main():
+    atheris.Setup(sys.argv, TestOneInput)
+    atheris.Fuzz()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()