From ebf46561837f579d202d7bd4a22362f24fb858a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Luzgin <luzgin.st@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:24:08 +0300
Subject: Fix #920

---
 git/cmd.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'git/cmd.py')

diff --git a/git/cmd.py b/git/cmd.py
index 484a0181..1cb3df34 100644
--- a/git/cmd.py
+++ b/git/cmd.py
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ class Git(LazyMixin):
             :raise GitCommandError: if the return status is not 0"""
             if stderr is None:
                 stderr = b''
-            stderr = force_bytes(stderr)
+            stderr = force_bytes(data=stderr, encoding='utf-8')
 
             status = self.proc.wait()
 
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