feedback: move decode

Author: dmcilvaney

.github/workflows/scripts/check_rendered_specs.py

@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 # Tightly coupled to the format emitted by azldev's render pipeline; if azldev
 # ever changes the emitted form (email suffix, version tag, different
 # whitespace) this regex must be updated or every spec will look like drift.
-# Owner: azure-linux-dev-tools (cmd that emits "* <date> azldev <>" lines).
-# e.g. "* Wed Apr 08 2026 azldev <> - 1.0-1"
+# Owner: azure-linux-dev-tools (cmd that emits "* <date> azldev <user@example.com>" lines).
+# e.g. "* Wed Apr 08 2026 azldev <azurelinux@microsoft.com> - 1.0-1"
 _CHANGELOG_DATE_RE = re.compile(
     r"^\* [A-Z][a-z]{2} [A-Z][a-z]{2} [0-9]{2} [0-9]{4} azldev\b"
 )
@@ -68,21 +68,21 @@ def _resolve_head_blobs(paths: list[str]) -> dict[str, str]:
     """
     if not paths:
         return {}
-    raw = _git_bytes("ls-tree", "-z", "HEAD", "--", *paths)
+    raw = _git_bytes("ls-tree", "-z", "HEAD", "--", *paths).decode("utf-8")
     out: dict[str, str] = {p: "" for p in paths}
-    for entry in raw.split(b"\x00"):
+    for entry in raw.split("\0"):
         if not entry:
             continue
         # Format: "<mode> <type> <sha>\t<path>"
-        meta, _, path_b = entry.partition(b"\t")
+        meta, _, path = entry.partition("\t")
         try:
-            _mode, kind, sha = meta.split(b" ")
+            _mode, kind, sha = meta.split(" ")
         except ValueError:
             continue
-        if kind != b"blob":
+        if kind != "blob":
             # Submodule (commit) or tree — not a regular file we can diff.
             continue
-        out[path_b.decode("utf-8")] = sha.decode("ascii")
+        out[path] = sha
     return out