diff --git a/fuzzing/README.md b/fuzzing/README.md
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ This directory contains files related to GitPython's suite of fuzz tests that ar
infrastructure provided by [OSS-Fuzz][oss-fuzz-repo]. This document aims to provide necessary information for working
with fuzzing in GitPython.

-The latest details regarding OSS-Fuzz test status, including build logs and coverage reports, is made available
-at [this link](https://introspector.oss-fuzz.com/project-profile?project=gitpython).

## How to Contribute

@@ -129,47 +129,45 @@ This approach uses Docker images provided by OSS-Fuzz for building and running f
comprehensive features but requires a local clone of the OSS-Fuzz repository and sufficient disk space for Docker
containers.

-#### Preparation
-
-Set environment variables to simplify command usage:
-
-```shell
-# $SANITIZER can be either 'address' or 'undefined':
-export SANITIZER=address
-# specify the fuzz target without the .py extension:
-export FUZZ_TARGET=fuzz_config
-```
-
-#### Build and Run

Clone the OSS-Fuzz repository and prepare the Docker environment:

```shell
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz.git oss-fuzz
cd oss-fuzz
python infra/helper.py build_image gitpython
-python infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer $SANITIZER gitpython
```

> [!TIP]
-> The `build_fuzzers` command above accepts a local file path pointing to your gitpython repository clone as the last
> argument.
> This makes it easy to build fuzz targets you are developing locally in this repository without changing anything in
> the OSS-Fuzz repo!
> For example, if you have cloned this repository (or a fork of it) into: `~/code/GitPython`
> Then running this command would build new or modified fuzz targets using the `~/code/GitPython/fuzzing/fuzz-targets`
> directory:
> ```shell
-> python infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer $SANITIZER gitpython ~/code/GitPython
> ```

-
Verify the build of your fuzzers with the optional `check_build` command:

```shell
python infra/helper.py check_build gitpython
```

Execute the desired fuzz target:

```shell

diff --git a/fuzzing/fuzz-targets/fuzz_config.py b/fuzzing/fuzz-targets/fuzz_config.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python3
# Copyright 2023 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

diff --git a/fuzzing/fuzz-targets/fuzz_tree.py b/fuzzing/fuzz-targets/fuzz_tree.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python3
# Copyright 2023 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

diff --git a/fuzzing/oss-fuzz-scripts/build.sh b/fuzzing/oss-fuzz-scripts/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

python3 -m pip install .

-# Directory to look in for dictionaries, options files, and seed corpa:
SEED_DATA_DIR="$SRC/seed_data"

find "$SEED_DATA_DIR" \( -name '*_seed_corpus.zip' -o -name '*.options' -o -name '*.dict' \) \
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ find "$SEED_DATA_DIR" \( -name '*_seed_corpus.zip' -o -name '*.options' -o -name
  -exec cp {} "$OUT" \;

# Build fuzzers in $OUT.
-find "$SRC/gitpython/fuzzing" -name 'fuzz_*.py' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' fuzz_harness; do
  compile_python_fuzzer "$fuzz_harness"

  common_base_dictionary_filename="$SEED_DATA_DIR/__base.dict"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ find "$SRC/gitpython/fuzzing" -name 'fuzz_*.py' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d
      # If a dictionary file for this fuzzer already exists and is not empty,
      # we append a new line to the end of it before appending any new entries.
      #
-      # libfuzzer will happily ignore multiple empty lines in a dictionary but crash
      # if any single line has incorrect syntax (e.g., if we accidentally add two entries to the same line.)
      # See docs for valid syntax: https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html#id32
      echo >>"$output_file"

diff --git a/fuzzing/oss-fuzz-scripts/container-environment-bootstrap.sh b/fuzzing/oss-fuzz-scripts/container-environment-bootstrap.sh
@@ -34,23 +34,24 @@ download_and_concatenate_common_dictionaries() {
  done
}

-fetch_seed_corpra() {
  # Seed corpus zip files are hosted in a separate repository to avoid additional bloat in this repo.
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gitpython-developers/qa-assets.git qa-assets &&
    rsync -avc qa-assets/gitpython/corpra/ "$SEED_DATA_DIR/" &&
-    rm -rf qa-assets; # Clean up the cloned repo to keep the Docker image as slim as possible.
}

########################
# Main execution logic #
########################

-fetch_seed_corpra;

download_and_concatenate_common_dictionaries "$SEED_DATA_DIR/__base.dict" \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/fuzzing/master/dictionaries/utf8.dict" \
-  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/fuzzing/master/dictionaries/url.dict";

# The OSS-Fuzz base image has outdated dependencies by default so we upgrade them below.
-python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip;
-python3 -m pip install 'setuptools~=69.0' 'pyinstaller~=6.0'; # Uses the latest versions know to work at the time of this commit.