diff --git a/ReadMe.md b/ReadMe.md
index db758ce1..42cfa159 100644
--- a/ReadMe.md
+++ b/ReadMe.md
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ What's new?
 
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/jacquev6/PyGithub.png)](http://travis-ci.org/jacquev6/PyGithub)
 
+Next version
+------------
+
+* Add a shortcut function `Github.get_repo` to get a repo directly from its full name. thank you [lwc](https://github.com/lwc) for the contribution
+
 [Version 1.9.1](https://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub/issues?milestone=17&state=closed) (November 20th, 2012)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/ReferenceOfApis.md b/doc/ReferenceOfApis.md
index 73586918..9566a5f4 100644
--- a/doc/ReferenceOfApis.md
+++ b/doc/ReferenceOfApis.md
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ API `/rate_limit`
 
 API `/repos/:user/:repo`
 ========================
-* GET: `AuthenticatedUser.get_repo`, `NamedUser.get_repo` or `Organization.get_repo`
+* GET: `AuthenticatedUser.get_repo`, `NamedUser.get_repo`, `Organization.get_repo` or `Github.get_repo`
 * PATCH: `Repository.edit`
 * DELETE: `Repository.delete`
 
diff --git a/doc/ReferenceOfClasses.md b/doc/ReferenceOfClasses.md
index e34a3882..d0d87b31 100644
--- a/doc/ReferenceOfClasses.md
+++ b/doc/ReferenceOfClasses.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Methods
 * `get_user()`: `AuthenticatedUser`
 * `get_user( login )`: `NamedUser`
 * `get_organization( login )`: `Organization`
+* `get_repo( full_name )`: `Repository`
 * `get_gist( id )`: `Gist`
     * `id`: string
 * `get_gists()`: `PaginatedList` of `Gist`
diff --git a/github/Github.py b/github/Github.py
index 711699c2..782d8f6f 100644
--- a/github/Github.py
+++ b/github/Github.py
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ class Github(object):
         )
         return Organization.Organization(self.__requester, data, completed=True)
 
-    def get_repo(self, path):
-        assert isinstance(path, (str, unicode)), name
+    def get_repo(self, full_name):
+        assert isinstance(full_name, (str, unicode)), full_name
         headers, data = self.__requester.requestAndCheck(
             "GET",
-            "/repos/" + path,
+            "/repos/" + full_name,
             None,
             None
         )
diff --git a/github/tests/Github_.py b/github/tests/Github_.py
index 95a51b5d..24d504c9 100644
--- a/github/tests/Github_.py
+++ b/github/tests/Github_.py
@@ -92,3 +92,6 @@ class Github(Framework.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(hook.supported_events, ["push"])
         self.assertEqual(hook.events, ["push"])
         self.assertEqual(hook.schema, [["string", "url"], ["string", "token"], ["string", "project_id"], ["string", "milestone_id"], ["string", "category_id"]])
+
+    def testGetRepoFromFullName(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.g.get_repo("jacquev6/PyGithub").description, "Python library implementing the full Github API v3")
diff --git a/github/tests/ReplayData/Github.testGetRepoFromFullName.txt b/github/tests/ReplayData/Github.testGetRepoFromFullName.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..df44e1e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/github/tests/ReplayData/Github.testGetRepoFromFullName.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+https GET api.github.com None /repos/jacquev6/PyGithub {'Authorization': 'Basic login_and_password_removed'} null
+200
+[('status', '200 OK'), ('x-ratelimit-remaining', '4939'), ('content-length', '1097'), ('server', 'nginx/1.0.13'), ('connection', 'keep-alive'), ('x-ratelimit-limit', '5000'), ('etag', '"922c0519f2733063a899619ae95ce892"'), ('date', 'Sun, 20 May 2012 12:33:27 GMT'), ('content-type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')]
+{"svn_url":"https://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub","has_wiki":false,"has_issues":true,"updated_at":"2012-05-19T10:50:39Z","forks":2,"homepage":"http://vincent-jacques.net/PyGithub","git_url":"git://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub.git","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jacquev6/PyGithub","clone_url":"https://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub.git","open_issues":18,"fork":false,"ssh_url":"git@github.com:jacquev6/PyGithub.git","pushed_at":"2012-05-19T10:50:39Z","size":304,"private":false,"has_downloads":true,"watchers":13,"html_url":"https://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub","owner":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b68de5ae38616c296fa345d2b9df2225?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jacquev6","gravatar_id":"b68de5ae38616c296fa345d2b9df2225","login":"jacquev6","id":327146},"name":"PyGithub","permissions":{"pull":true,"admin":true,"push":true},"language":"Python","description":"Python library implementing the full Github API v3","created_at":"2012-02-25T12:53:47Z","id":3544490,"mirror_url":null}
+