I'm getting frequent "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" errors when
visiting files under git version control with uncommitted changes.  This
started to happen rather recently.

This is an excerpt from the backtrace with the second line truncated
since it is *very* long.  Full backtrace is attached at the end of this
mail.

,----
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")
|   string-match(":[0-7]\\{6\\} [0-7]\\{6\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} \\([ADMUT]\\).[^.]+.\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)*\\)\\'" ":100644 100644 04163e01d122e6a0b2e6172b91c7bdc69e496f25 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 [...]
|   vc-git-state("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   apply(vc-git-state "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-call-backend(Git state "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-default-state-heuristic(Git "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   apply(vc-default-state-heuristic Git "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-call-backend(Git state-heuristic "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-state-refresh("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" Git)
|   vc-state("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" Git)
|   vc-default-mode-line-string(Git "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-git-mode-line-string("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   apply(vc-git-mode-line-string "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-call-backend(Git mode-line-string "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src")
|   vc-mode-line("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" Git)
|   vc-find-file-hook()
|   run-hooks(find-file-hook)
|   after-find-file(nil t)
|   find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer terminfo.src> "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" nil nil "/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" (665028 2055))
|   find-file-noselect("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" nil nil t)
|   find-file("/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/misc/terminfo.src" t)
|   call-interactively(find-file nil nil)
`----


In GNU Emacs 24.0.94.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-03-28 on turtle
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11200000
Configured using:
 `configure '--build=i486-pc-linux-gnu' '--without-gconf'
 'build_alias=i486-pc-linux-gnu''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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Recent input:
C-x C-f / u s r <tab> l o c <tab> s r <tab> d e b <tab> 
n c <tab> / n c <tab> / m i s <tab> t e r m <tab> <return> 
C-x C-b C-x o <down> <down> d x M-x t o g g l e - d 
e b <tab> e r r <tab> <return> C-x C-f <up> <return> 
<up> C-SPC <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
M-w M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

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