--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Apr 24 14:58:02 2009 -0600
+++ b/ChangeLog	Sat Apr 25 10:23:53 2009 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2009-04-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	vc-list-files: restore lost functionality with subdir argument
+	* build-aux/vc-list-files: When given a non-"." sub-directory
+	argument, substitute the $dir/ prefix back onto each resulting name.
+	Otherwise, coreutils' root_tests check would fail.
+
 2009-04-24  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
 	vc-list-files: ignore git symlinks

--- a/build-aux/vc-list-files	Fri Apr 24 14:58:02 2009 -0600
+++ b/build-aux/vc-list-files	Sat Apr 25 10:23:53 2009 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # List version-controlled file names.
 
 # Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2009-04-24.14
+scriptversion=2009-04-25.10
 
 # Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -72,17 +72,13 @@
 test "x$dir" = x && dir=.
 
 if test -d .git; then
-  if test "x$dir" = x. ; then
-    dir=HEAD
-  else
-    dir=HEAD:$dir
-  fi
+  test "x$dir" = x. && dir= || dir="$dir/"
   # Ignore git symlinks - either they point into the tree, in which case
   # we don't need to visit the target twice, or they point somewhere
   # else (often into a submodule), in which case the content does not
   # belong to this package.
-  eval exec git ls-tree -r '"$dir"' \| sed -n '"s/^100[^	]*.//p"' \
-    $postprocess
+  eval exec git ls-tree -r 'HEAD:"$dir"' \
+    \| sed -n '"s!^100[^	]*.!'"$dir"'!p"' $postprocess
 elif test -d .hg; then
   eval exec hg locate '"$dir/*"' $postprocess
 elif test -d .bzr; then