Re: find-file-literally and save-buffer

[Chong Yidong]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    >> | emacs -Q
>    >> | M-x find-file-literally ~/RMAIL.empty RET
>    >> | C-u M-~   (not-modified t)
>    >> | C-x C-s   (save-buffer)
>
> I think this might be related to me having my home directory under
> version control ... I think it is because vc-arch-file-source-p
> calls find-file-noselect, which in turn calls vc-arch-file-source-p,
> and so on...

Probably the fix is for vc-arch-file-source-p to check if
get-file-buffer is nil; if so, it should perform insert-file-contents
on a temp buffer, instead of visiting the file directly.