Subject: Re: bug#40967: 27.0.50; vc-diff in indirect buffers

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:13:03 +0300

On 29.04.2020 21:01, Nathan Moreau wrote:
> Reproduction steps:
> ===============
> run emacs -Q
> open any file-under-version-control
> M-x clone-indirect-buffer
> In the new buffer, run vc-diff fails with `vc-deduce-fileset: Buffer
> [...] is not associated with a file`

I'm not sure we really want to support that workflow. Or else a lot of 
commands would have to be changed the same way, inside and outside of VC.

But opinions welcome.