Subject: bug#21930: emacs-repository-get-version fails on linked worktrees

From: Stephen Leake <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:01:44 -0600

Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]> writes:

> When run inside a linked worktree (created with "git worktree add ..."),
> emacs-repository-get-version needs to ask the VCS to find the repository
> version, which doesn't work during dumping.

I'm guessing because running any background process doesn't work during
dumping; they don't work in general in batch mode.

> I'd like to apply this patch to the release branch.

Looks good to me.

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-- Stephe