Force source and target branch to binary mode

lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/conflicts_service.rb

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ module Gitlab
           our_commit_oid: @our_commit_oid,
           target_repository: target_repository.gitaly_repository,
           their_commit_oid: @their_commit_oid,
-          source_branch: source_branch,
-          target_branch: target_branch,
+          source_branch: encode_binary(source_branch),
+          target_branch: encode_binary(target_branch),
           commit_message: encode_binary(resolution.commit_message),
           user: Gitlab::Git::User.from_gitlab(resolution.user).to_gitaly
         )

spec/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/conflicts_service_spec.rb

@@ -51,17 +51,24 @@ describe Gitlab::GitalyClient::ConflictsService do
       subject
     end
 
+    context 'with branches with UTF-8 characters' do
+      let(:source_branch) { 'testòbranch' }
+      let(:target_branch) { 'ábranch' }
+
       it 'handles commit messages with UTF-8 characters' do
         allow(::Gitlab::GitalyClient).to receive(:call).and_call_original
         expect(::Gitlab::GitalyClient).to receive(:call).with(anything, :conflicts_service, :resolve_conflicts, any_args) do |*args|
           # Force the generation of request messages by iterating through the enumerator
-        args[3].to_a
+          message = args[3].to_a.first
+          params = [message.header.commit_message, message.header.source_branch, message.header.target_branch]
+          expect(params.map(&:encoding).uniq).to eq([Encoding::ASCII_8BIT])
 
           double(resolution_error: nil)
         end
 
         subject
       end
+    end
 
     it 'raises a relevant exception if resolution_error is present' do
       expect_any_instance_of(Gitaly::ConflictsService::Stub).to receive(:resolve_conflicts)