1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/vc-hooks.el b/lisp/vc-hooks.el
index 9fce8a43d09..ea4fd6543f5 100644
--- a/lisp/vc-hooks.el
+++ b/lisp/vc-hooks.el
@@ -929,11 +929,11 @@ control system name."
          (this-buffer (current-buffer)))
     (if (eq true-buffer this-buffer)
         (progn
+          (kill-buffer this-buffer)
           ;; In principle, we could do something like set-visited-file-name.
           ;; However, it can't be exactly the same as set-visited-file-name.
           ;; I'm not going to work out the details right now. -- rms.
-          (set-buffer (find-file-noselect truename))
-          (kill-buffer this-buffer))
+          (set-buffer (find-file-noselect truename)))
       (set-buffer true-buffer)
       (kill-buffer this-buffer))))