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30.1; insert-file-contents should not set buffer-file-name to nil

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From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.1; insert-file-contents should not set buffer-file-name to nil
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:58:34 +0100

When investigating https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/4782 and
https://github.com/purcell/emacs-reformatter/issues/63, I've discovered
the following bug in insert-file-contents.

Reproduction:

1. echo "hello world" > ~/test.txt
2. emacs -q ~/test.txt
3. M-x eval-expression RET (add-hook 'after-change-functions (lambda (&rest _) (message "buffer-file-name: %s, current-buffer: %s" (buffer-file-name) (current-buffer))) nil t) RET
4. Type something into the buffer
5. M-x eval-expression RET (insert-file-contents (buffer-file-name) nil nil nil t) RET
6. Switch to the *Messages* buffer and observe the buffer file name is nil.

Expectation:

insert-file-contents should not set buffer-file-name to nil

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