Eli, Michael, thanks for the review. > A better approach would be to prepend "GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0" in `process-environment'. Thanks for the suggestion, I am attaching version 2 of the patch which implements this suggestion. > > Adding to the discussion: > > * Dmitry Gutov, because he is the maintainer for lisp/vc/* . > > * Eli Zaretskii and Michael Albinus, because they participated in the discussion on this bug before. > > Thanks, but there's no need to add me: I read all the messages sent to > the bug list. OK, I've removed you from the addressees. I'm not sure if I should do the same for others, so I left Dmitry and Michael in CC.