Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into neilj/server_notices_on_blocking

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/util/versionstring.py b/synapse/util/versionstring.py
index 1fbcd41115..3baba3225a 100644
--- a/synapse/util/versionstring.py
+++ b/synapse/util/versionstring.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def get_version_string(module):
                 ['git', 'rev-parse', '--abbrev-ref', 'HEAD'],
                 stderr=null,
                 cwd=cwd,
-            ).strip()
+            ).strip().decode('ascii')
             git_branch = "b=" + git_branch
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
             git_branch = ""
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def get_version_string(module):
                 ['git', 'describe', '--exact-match'],
                 stderr=null,
                 cwd=cwd,
-            ).strip()
+            ).strip().decode('ascii')
             git_tag = "t=" + git_tag
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
             git_tag = ""
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def get_version_string(module):
                 ['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'],
                 stderr=null,
                 cwd=cwd,
-            ).strip()
+            ).strip().decode('ascii')
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
             git_commit = ""
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def get_version_string(module):
                 ['git', 'describe', '--dirty=' + dirty_string],
                 stderr=null,
                 cwd=cwd,
-            ).strip().endswith(dirty_string)
+            ).strip().decode('ascii').endswith(dirty_string)
 
             git_dirty = "dirty" if is_dirty else ""
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def get_version_string(module):
                 "%s (%s)" % (
                     module.__version__, git_version,
                 )
-            ).encode("ascii")
+            )
     except Exception as e:
         logger.info("Failed to check for git repository: %s", e)
 
-    return module.__version__.encode("ascii")
+    return module.__version__