UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb8 in position 7713658: invalid start byte about git-cc

[charleso]

Hi Hitendra,

God I made such a hash of the encoding/decoding in git-cc. I'm afraid my python just isn't good enough to fix this bug. You might want to look at changing the ENCODING value in common.py. There is a commit message that doesn't contain a utf-8 character. :(

Sorry I can't help you - but I haven't use this program in 3-4 years now. Let me know if you have any luck fixing it.

Cheers,
Charles

[toroc]

@hitenc were you able to resolve this? I've run into a similar issue because some files have special characters in their name.

[faisal-hameed]

@charleso I got same error while using git rebase. Can you please give some hints to fix this issue?

`: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 148800: invalid start byte

git branch
cleartool get -to /view/Win-DOS2UNIX/DOS2UNIX.EXE Win-DOS2UNIX/DOS2UNIX.EXE@@/main/1
git branch -f master_cc
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/gitcc", line 9, in
load_entry_point('git-cc==1.0.1.dev0', 'console_scripts', 'gitcc')()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/gitcc.py", line 25, in main
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/gitcc.py", line 50, in invoke
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/rebase.py", line 54, in main
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/common.py", line 68, in doStash
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/rebase.py", line 54, in
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/rebase.py", line 71, in doCommit
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/common.py", line 77, in git_exec
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/git_cc/common.py", line 92, in popen
Exception: fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.
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[charleso]

@faisal-hameed I'm sorry I really can't. It's obviously an encoding issue, which has plagued git-cc because I didn't know what I was doing in python (or clearcase for that matter). :(

[faisal-hameed]

Thanks @charleso . I fixed my issue in : #81

[yourfate]

Same problem here:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 3477435: invalid start byte

Any progress on merging the related PR?

[charleso]

@yourfate Just curious, does the PR fix your issue locally?