From 728f0f66e9a8f63a59b6b303f08b35eb9bdc3af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Garrison <garrison@ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:04:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Don't `decode` a unicode string when using git version

In #907, the git sha1 was added to the version string on
development builds.  In #2158, `encoding="utf-8"` was added
in `_minimal_ext_cmd`, which changed the output from a
bytestring to a regular string.  However, the original
code path still expects a bytestring and calls `.decode()` on it.
This fixes it in the way most obvious to me.
---
 qiskit_aer/version.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qiskit_aer/version.py b/qiskit_aer/version.py
index 110bceb957..9135ba3d98 100644
--- a/qiskit_aer/version.py
+++ b/qiskit_aer/version.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def git_version():
     # Determine if we're at main
     try:
         out = _minimal_ext_cmd(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"])
-        git_revision = out.strip().decode("ascii")
+        git_revision = out.strip()
     except OSError:
         git_revision = "Unknown"