Cursor color changed unexpectedly after saving a buffer

[lululau]

Using evil-emacs-state to edit a text file which is under a git repo, the cursor color is now sky blue, then save the buffer, and after buffer saving, the cursor color becomes to yellow which is for evil-normal-cursor unexpectedly.

In fact, I noticed that the invocation of kill-all-local-variables (invocation chain: after-save-hook -> diff-hl-update -> diff-hl-changes -> diff-hl-changes-buffer -> vc-call-backend -> vc-git-diff -> vc-git-command -> vc-do-command -> vc-setup-buffer -> kill-all-local-variables) caused this issue. But I still have no idea about how to fix it. I tried to append evil-refresh-cursor to after-save-hook, but does not work.

The follow steps could be used to recur the unexpected color changing simpler:

1. Open a a file which is under git repository in Emacs.
2. M-x, then eval (save-current-buffer (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer "a temp buffer")) (kill-all-local-variables)) in mini buffer.

[StreakyCobra]

@lululau Can you reproduce this problem on develop? I can't reproduce it, but I'm also not sure to do it correctly.

[StreakyCobra]

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[aaronjszy]

I had this same problem. It was related to the version-control layer being configured to use diff-hl: (version-control :variables version-control-diff-tool 'diff-hl) Dropping that variable config solved the problem me.