@stdweird 
Well not renaming is the easiest solution.
Your workaround still doesn't work if there is a file git.py in the current directory.
```
[jens@assail ~/temp]$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Feb 19 2014, 13:47:28) 
[GCC 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from __future__ import absolute_import
>>> import git
git.pyc
>>> from git import GitCommandError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name GitCommandError
```