Ignore trailing last empty string in .split() output

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
index 32ee830e..bc5a7c35 100644
--- a/git/repo/base.py
+++ b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -682,12 +682,9 @@ class Repo(object):
         data = self.git.blame(rev, '--', file, p=True, incremental=True, stdout_as_string=False, **kwargs)
         commits = dict()
 
-        stream = iter(data.split(b'\n'))
+        stream = (line for line in data.split(b'\n') if line)
         while True:
             line = next(stream)  # when exhausted, casues a StopIteration, terminating this function
-            if line.strip() == '' or line.strip() == b'':
-                # Skip over empty lines
-                continue
             hexsha, orig_lineno, lineno, num_lines = line.split()
             lineno = int(lineno)
             num_lines = int(num_lines)