Subject: bug#44624: 28.0.50; C-h f fails with search failed "*\n"

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:52:36 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2020-11-14 10:13]:
> > From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:09:00 +0300
> > 
> > 
> > I cannot in this git version invoke C-h f as it fails each time.
> > 
> > C-h f for find-file says: help-fns--first-release: Search failed: "
> > *"
> 
> I cannot reproduce this with today's master.  Suggest to update from
> Git and perhaps also "make bootstrap".

Upgraded, git fsck, make bootstrap, still emacs -Q gives me that.

Hard to understand.