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> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:55:25 +0100
> 
> My goal would be to review the version history using C-x v l without
> having to manually commit anything.

"C-x v l" doesn't work on backup files, only on VCS history.  It
basically shows you the log of changes returned by a VCS backend, and
there's no backend for backup files to create and return that history.