Remove pointless assertion - we'll get an exception in any case if the pack doesn...

diff --git a/dulwich/pack.py b/dulwich/pack.py
index f7465c65128317770893352333320fc2dcd6664f..8371718e5ddc39701cddf660861ddaad57a27583 100644 (file)
--- a/dulwich/pack.py
+++ b/dulwich/pack.py
@@ -494,7 +494,6 @@ class PackData(object):
         mmap implementation is flawed.
         """
         self._filename = filename
-        assert os.path.exists(filename), "%s is not a packfile" % filename
         self._size = os.path.getsize(filename)
         self._header_size = 12
         assert self._size >= self._header_size, "%s is too small for a packfile (%d < %d)" % (filename, self._size, self._header_size)