Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm thinking specifically of using `find-file' on what you think is a
    non-existent file, and discovering that the buffer has non-empty
    content because the file has been checked out of RCS.  I would not
    call that "explicitly calling VC functions".

That is true.  However, in that case, given the way RCS is used, I
think that checking out the file is the right thing to do.