GitError: config: environment can only contain strings

[pranshuthegamer]

I was using repo init:
repo init -u git://github.com/MiCode/patchrom.git -b marshmallow
then i got

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_command.py", line 311, in init
p = subprocess.Popen(command,
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
TypeError: environment can only contain strings

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo/main.py", line 568, in
_Main(sys.argv[1:])
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo/main.py", line 542, in _Main
result = run()
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo/main.py", line 535, in
run = lambda: repo._Run(name, gopts, argv) or 0
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo/main.py", line 213, in _Run
result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\subcmds\init.py", line 462, in Execute
self._SyncManifest(opt)
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\subcmds\init.py", line 187, in _SyncManifest
print('Get %s' % GitConfig.ForUser().UrlInsteadOf(opt.manifest_url),
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 237, in UrlInsteadOf
for new_url in self.GetSubSections('url'):
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 224, in GetSubSections
return self._sections.get(section, set())
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 248, in _sections
for name in self._cache.keys():
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 265, in _cache
self._cache_dict = self._Read()
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 271, in _Read
d = self._ReadGit()
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 306, in _ReadGit
d = self._do('--null', '--list')
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_config.py", line 329, in _do
p = GitCommand(None,
File "C:\Users\admin.repo\repo\git_command.py", line 318, in init
raise GitError('%s: %s' % (command[1], e))
error.GitError: config: environment can only contain strings

[pranshuthegamer]

How do I fix this??

[BeQuietLee]

Same issue. Waiting for the answer.

[BeQuietLee]

UPDATE: Caused by windows encoding.
Found an alternative solution, inspired by this post
Add the code below to __init__ function inside git_command.py

    try:
      # ADD START: clean the encoding
      env_clean = {}
      for k in env:
        key = k
        if isinstance(key, unicode):
          key = key.encode('utf-8')
        env_clean[key] = env[k]
        if isinstance(env_clean[key], unicode):
          env_clean[key] = env_clean[key].encode('utf-8')
      env = env_clean
      # ADD END

      p = subprocess.Popen(command,
                           cwd=cwd,
                           env=env,
                           stdin=stdin,
                           stdout=stdout,
                           stderr=stderr)

[sivakotich]

Above solution is not working for me on windows with python 3.8 version. Observing the same failure (modified unicode to str in above snippet to make it work for py3)

Any other solutions are appreciated. Thanks

[charlesli640]

I think on Windows, somehow the env is stored as utf-8 encoded bytes/bytearray.
But it only accept string in the env Popen( env…)

So instead of encoding, we need decoding bytes to str I modified above solution as following. Then it works on Windows py3

  # ADD START: clean the encoding
  env_clean = {}
  for k, v in env.items():
      if isinstance(k, bytes):
          k = k.decode('utf-8')
      if isinstance(v, bytes):
          v = v.decode('utf-8')
      env_clean[k] = v
  env = env_clean
  # ADD END