Subject: Re: bug#43714: 28.1: auto-revert code improvements [PATCH]

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:21:00 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> commit 33512cbeb168764f83f5a740090ce40b4b948591
>> Author:     Luc Teirlinck <[email-masked]>
>> AuthorDate: Wed Jun 1 20:51:03 2005 +0000
>>
>>     (auto-revert-buffers): Use save-match-data.
>
> It could be due to remote files (and file-handlers)?

Could be the case. There is no promise that the file name handlers do
not change match data. And I'm kind of sure this save-match-data form
has been introduced after such an accident, that auto-revert has
corrupted somebody's match data.

So please keep it. It doesn't hurt.

Best regards, Michael.