> I am actually satisfied with this approach, and it seems reliable. > > > > As you suggested earlier, maybe we need to modify vc.el, making the restriction looser? > If you can, try out the above patch and tell me if you end up having any > issues, otherwise I don't think we need to adjust vc. Yes, it works as expected, thanks. But now it will create an additional empty buffer named "{pkg}*", {pkg} is the name of pacakge. So I suggest the following code: ------------------------------------------------------------------ (with-demoted-errors "Failed to fetch: %S" (require 'vc-dir) (let ((vcbuf (vc-dir-prepare-status-buffer (format " *vc-dir: %s*" pkg-dir) pkg-dir (vc-responsible-backend pkg-dir)))) (unwind-protect (with-current-buffer vcbuf (vc-pull)) (kill-buffer vcbuf)))) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, I think this buffer doesn't matter. Both are OK. Regards Yi Yue