bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards

[Noam Postavsky]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> It's not so simple. FILE already goes through call-process. But Git
> expects a pathspec, not just a file name. So if it's a glob, it is
> expanded.

You can pass --literal-pathspecs to tell git not to expand.  Magit does
this.  But there is a downside due to the way git implements it, which
is by setting an environment variable: it affects all subprocesses git
calls, including git-hook scripts which tends to trip people up.