git cmd fix: After removing the with_raw_output flag, I actually did the wrong thing by _not_ stripping the final newline at the end of all git commands we use. This is the default now which cannot be changed - perhaps its wrong to remove it, but in way you'd always want the final newline stripped unless you get data directly, but there are better ways to do that ( blob.data, blob.data_stream, blob.stream_data )