From b95dadd177fd8cce5ff1ac8a37cb1578be6e225d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Shawcroft <scott.shawcroft@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:33:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix common case.

---
 circuitpython_build_tools/build.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/circuitpython_build_tools/build.py b/circuitpython_build_tools/build.py
index aa4a2a1..9f977b4 100644
--- a/circuitpython_build_tools/build.py
+++ b/circuitpython_build_tools/build.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def version_string(path=None, *, valid_semver=False):
         describe = subprocess.run("git describe --tags --always", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=path)
         describe = describe.stdout.strip().decode("utf-8", "strict").rsplit("-", maxsplit=2)
         if len(describe) == 3:
-            tag, additional_commits, commitish = describe.stdout.strip().decode("utf-8", "strict").rsplit("-", maxsplit=2)
+            tag, additional_commits, commitish = describe
             commitish = commitish[1:]
         else:
             tag = "0.0.0"