diff -r defabf63e969 -r 8ff1ecfadcd1 hgext/fastannotate/support.py
--- a/hgext/fastannotate/support.py	Tue Oct 08 15:15:37 2019 -0700
+++ b/hgext/fastannotate/support.py	Tue Oct 08 15:06:18 2019 -0700
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
         return _doannotate(self, follow, diffopts)
     except Exception as ex:
         self._repo.ui.debug(
-            b'fastannotate: falling back to the vanilla ' b'annotate: %r\n' % ex
+            b'fastannotate: falling back to the vanilla annotate: %r\n' % ex
         )
         return orig(self, follow=follow, skiprevs=skiprevs, diffopts=diffopts)