bug#23769: 25.0.95; Mode Line breakage in vc-git

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/16/2016 01:27 AM, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> Apparently this "_the_ right way to write hooks that touch the files
> in the work tree."
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/136276

Is it the same behavior we're talking about?

The thread says that GIT_DIR is set to '.', not to '.git'. I doubt the 
former setting would mesh well with binding default-directory to 
repository's root like the patch proposes.