Estou recebendo o seguinte erro ao executar o snippet de código abaixo exatamente na linhaif uID in repo.git.log():, o problema está emrepo.git.log(), Observei todas as perguntas semelhantes no Stack Overflow que sugerem usardecode("utf-8").

como faço para converterrepo.git.log() para dentrodecode("utf-8")?

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 377826: invalid start byte 

Código relevante:

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uID = gerritInfo['id'].decode("utf-8")                                            
if uID in repo.git.log():
        inwslist.append(gerritpatch)      
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/prj/host_script/script.py", line 1417, in <module>
    result=main()
  File "/prj/host_script/script.py", line 1028, in main
    if uID in repo.git.log():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.py", line 431, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_process(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.py", line 802, in _call_process
    return self.execute(make_call(), **_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/cmd.py", line 610, in execute
    stdout_value = stdout_value.decode(defenc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 377826: invalid start byte