[Bioc-devel] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 234445: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jakob Theorell]

Dear all,
I guess this is related to some to me unknown failure on my side to avoid merge conflicts, but I now get the above error when I try to push upstream. I started by pulling upstream changes, had no obvious conflicts, and when pushing I still got this. Puzzled. Have tried to look it up, but all answers to solving this issue seem to relate to python-code, so I got nowhere there. Below is the full message when I tried to push. Very thankful for insights into solving this.
Best regards
Jakob

Enumerating objects: 122, done.
Counting objects: 100% (122/122), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (65/65), done.
Writing objects: 100% (65/65), 26.04 KiB | 5.21 MiB/s, done.
Total 65 (delta 53), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Traceback (most recent call last):
remote:   File "hooks/pre-receive.h00-pre-receive-hook-software", line 110, in <module>
remote:     apply_hooks(hooks_dict)
remote:   File "hooks/pre-receive.h00-pre-receive-hook-software", line 90, in apply_hooks
remote:     prevent_merge_markers(oldrev, newrev, refname)
remote:   File "/home/git/.gitolite/local/hooks/repo-specific/prevent_merge_markers.py", line 35, in prevent_merge_markers
remote:     conflicts = git_diff_files_with_conflicts(oldrev, newrev)
remote:   File "/home/git/.gitolite/local/hooks/repo-specific/prevent_merge_markers.py", line 26, in git_diff_files_with_conflicts
remote:     conflicts = pattern.search(diff.decode())
remote: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 234445: ordinal not in range(128)
To git.bioconductor.org:packages/DepecheR.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git using git.bioconductor.org:packages/DepecheR.git'

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