From a01ff4c82f0171e78af7b033affd719988f11577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: laerus <laerusk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:18:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] strip hg root value, news

---
 news/vc.rst               | 13 +++++++++++++
 xonsh/prompt/vc_branch.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 news/vc.rst

diff --git a/news/vc.rst b/news/vc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b9cceaba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/vc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+**Added:** None
+
+**Changed:** None
+
+**Deprecated:** None
+
+**Removed:** None
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* git/hg won't run unless we locate the binary
+
+**Security:** None
diff --git a/xonsh/prompt/vc_branch.py b/xonsh/prompt/vc_branch.py
index 3a4bf13e8..664e61aae 100644
--- a/xonsh/prompt/vc_branch.py
+++ b/xonsh/prompt/vc_branch.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def get_hg_branch(root=None):
         # not in repo
         return None
     else:
-        root = xt.decode_bytes(root)
+        root = xt.decode_bytes(root).strip()
     if env.get('VC_HG_SHOW_BRANCH'):
         # get branch name
         branch_path = os.path.sep.join([root, '.hg', 'branch'])