Fixes: debbugs:11109

* vc/vc-git.el (vc-git-state): Don't try to match all of the diff
contents.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 65018db7e4d..57c2edcbb28 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-03-28  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
+
+        * vc/vc-git.el (vc-git-state): Don't try to match all of the diff
+        contents.  (Bug#11109)
+
 2012-03-27  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
         * emacs-lisp/avl-tree.el (avl-tree--enter-balance): Fix paren typo
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
index bf7b7fb9e17..b71dc95dba2 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
@@ -220,11 +220,10 @@ matching the resulting Git log output, and KEYWORDS is a list of
     (let ((diff (vc-git--run-command-string
                  file "diff-index" "-p" "--raw" "-z" "HEAD" "--")))
       (if (and diff
-               (string-match ":[0-7]\\{6\\} [0-7]\\{6\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} \\([ADMUT]\\)\0[^\0]+\0\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)*\\)\\'"
+               (string-match ":[0-7]\\{6\\} [0-7]\\{6\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} [0-9a-f]\\{40\\} \\([ADMUT]\\)\0[^\0]+\0\\(.\\)?"
                              diff))
-          (let ((diff-letter (match-string 1 diff))
-                (diff-contents (match-string 2 diff)))
-            (if (not (string-match "\n." diff-contents))
+          (let ((diff-letter (match-string 1 diff)))
+            (if (not (match-beginning 2))
                 ;; Empty diff: file contents is the same as the HEAD
                 ;; revision, but timestamps are different (eg, file
                 ;; was "touch"ed).  Update timestamp in index: