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I have Subversion exclusive-locking enabled to increase SVN performance. If I commit a file the svn command line client opens Emacs so I can enter a commit message. But Emacs VC tries to determine the SVN status of the commit message file svn-commit.tmp with the command svn --non-interactive status -v svn-commit.tmp. That blocks because the commit command has the exclusive lock and I have to wait for the status timeout (10 seconds) until I can type my commit message. How can I disable version control for *.tmp files in Emacs to prevent that wait time? I didn't find an option to exclude files from VC.

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  • Does adding *.tmp to svn:ignore help?
    – nega
    Mar 28, 2019 at 19:54
  • @nega It does not help to add *.tmp to svn:ignore, Emacs VC will run svn status for any file it opens.
    – holger
    Mar 29, 2019 at 15:39

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You can override VC handled backends for specific file based on filename:

(defun my/find-file-hook ()
  (when (string-match-p "^svn-commit.*tmp$" (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)))
    (set (make-local-variable 'vc-handled-backends) nil)))

(add-hook 'find-file-hook #'my/find-file-hook)
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