Hi, While using vc-mode, the dir-locals.el variables under 'nil' mode are accumulated on file-local-variables-alist and they still apply after exiting the scope of the file. The attached script can be used to reproduce it (Emacs 27.1, on GNU Guix f6e031ab36fd99ad3536caabfdaefcc2b5f606a1). It generates a temporary folder with two example git repositories, an offending dir-locals.el[1], launches an emacs with -Q and the shows the steps to follow: 1. Open p1/file and accept the .dir-locals.el variables. 2. Call vc-print-log 3. Check the file-local-variables-alist 4. Open p2/file (this one doesn't have .dir-locals.el). 5. Call vc-print-log again, the message is shown again. Best regards, Miguel [1] It contains: ((nil . ((eval (message "Eval called")))))