Subject: bug#65763: Error opening a file from a Git working directory if Git is not installed

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:40:00 +0300

> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:21:00 +0300
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 10/09/2023 09:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el b/lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el
> > index a4de0a6..0715236 100644
> > --- a/lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el
> > +++ b/lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el
> > @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ vc-refresh-state
> >       (add-hook 'vc-mode-line-hook #'vc-mode-line nil t)
> >       (let (backend)
> >         (cond
> > -       ((setq backend (with-demoted-errors "VC refresh error: %S"
> > +       ((setq backend (ignore-errors
> >                           (vc-backend buffer-file-name)))
> >           ;; Let the backend setup any buffer-local things he needs.
> >           (vc-call-backend backend 'find-file-hook)
> 
> This seems to work better:

That'd be fine by me, but I'd still want to understand why
ignore-errors didn't work.

Thanks.