commit bc96dc054bb15ef10a90570458576c5152e5f707
author Xin Li <delphij@google.com> Thu Oct 08 17:23:26 2020 -0700
committer Xin Li <delphij@google.com> Thu Oct 08 17:23:26 2020 -0700
tree d23c11abff6ec562d0b6bf17274f239af51c3b49
parent a0c8263eeee9f3b5bd0a5124d31a7ed47d72a2e3
parent a7bef820d9044564e7661b86e17653b4dea8397a

Skip ab/6749736 in stage.

Merged-In: I8dd8d66f16dfc10b981532f1e7052893d7185957
Change-Id: Ic7b98bddaec228ef44182c091c7ec7a8cbe696fd

gitlint/git.py

diff --git a/gitlint/git.py b/gitlint/git.py
index e55aa06..7a03705 100644
--- a/gitlint/git.py
+++ b/gitlint/git.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
 
     # Split as bytes, as the output may have some non unicode characters.
     blame_lines = subprocess.check_output(
-        ['git', 'blame', (commit + '^!'), '--porcelain', '--', filename]).split(
+        ['git', 'blame', (commit + b'^!'), '--porcelain', '--', filename]).split(
             os.linesep.encode('utf-8'))
     modified_line_numbers = utils.filter_lines(
         blame_lines,