From 3b289ba8e865f940551b9a2081a7e9398423fe62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Labrys of Knossos <Labrys.git@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:11:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix str expected instead of bytes

---
 core/versionCheck.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/versionCheck.py b/core/versionCheck.py
index 7fb94889..7876c208 100644
--- a/core/versionCheck.py
+++ b/core/versionCheck.py
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ class GitUpdateManager(UpdateManager):
             output, err = p.communicate()
             exit_status = p.returncode
 
+            output = output.decode('utf-8')
+
             if output:
                 output = output.strip()
-                output = output.decode('utf-8')
             if core.LOG_GIT:
                 logger.log(u"git output: {output}".format(output=output), logger.DEBUG)