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

[Noam Postavsky]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Failing that, now I know what the problem is, at least I have a
> workaround (unset GIT_DIR in the pre-commit hook).

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