repo.git.log() raises ''utf8' codec can't decode byte x in position y: invalid start byte

[iganchevup8]

I am recovering the logs of a repository with repo.git.log() and run into decoding charset error. Trace follows:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-34-7aab8d0e3a89> in <module>()
----> 1 git.log()

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in <lambda>(*args, **kwargs)
    448         if name[0] == '_':
    449             return LazyMixin.__getattr__(self, name)
--> 450         return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_process(name, *args, **kwargs)
    451 
    452     def _set_cache_(self, attr):

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in _call_process(self, method, *args, **kwargs)
    900             # END provide better error message
    901         else:
--> 902             return self.execute(make_call(), **_kwargs)
    903         # END handle windows default installation
    904 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in execute(self, command, istream, with_keep_cwd, with_extended_output, with_exceptions, as_process, output_stream, stdout_as_string, kill_after_timeout, with_stdout, **subprocess_kwargs)
    696 
    697         if isinstance(stdout_value, bytes) and stdout_as_string:  # could also be output_stream
--> 698             stdout_value = stdout_value.decode(defenc)
    699 
    700         # Allow access to the command's status code

/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.pyc in decode(input, errors)
     14 
     15 def decode(input, errors='strict'):
---> 16     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
     17 
     18 class IncrementalEncoder(codecs.IncrementalEncoder):

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 25865158: invalid start byte

Adding .decode(defenc, 'ignore') doesn't solve the issue.

Any ideas about how to solve that?

Thanks

[iganchevup8]

After upgrading GitPython the issue remains. Trace follows:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-81-7aab8d0e3a89> in <module>()
----> 1 git.log()

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in <lambda>(*args, **kwargs)
    448         self._git_options = ()
    449 
--> 450         # Extra environment variables to pass to git commands
    451         self._environment = {}
    452 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in _call_process(self, method, *args, **kwargs)
    900         # END utility to recreate call after changes
    901 
--> 902         if sys.platform == 'win32':
    903             try:
    904                 try:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.pyc in execute(self, command, istream, with_keep_cwd, with_extended_output, with_exceptions, as_process, output_stream, stdout_as_string, kill_after_timeout, with_stdout, **subprocess_kwargs)
    696             def as_text(stdout_value):
    697                 return not output_stream and safe_decode(stdout_value) or '<OUTPUT_STREAM>'
--> 698             # end
    699 
    700             if stderr_value:

/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.pyc in decode(input, errors)
     14 
     15 def decode(input, errors='strict'):
---> 16     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
     17 
     18 class IncrementalEncoder(codecs.IncrementalEncoder):

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 25865158: invalid start byte

Need to be said I think that I'm having this issue with IPython.
Any advices about how to solve that, please?

[iganchevup8]

It was a locale issue. After installing en_US.UTF-8 as a default locale, everything works fine.