Question

For some reason, my emacs does not create backup for version controlled files
Here are settings in my .emacs

(defvar backup-dir (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/backup/"))
(defvar autosave-dir (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/autosave/"))
(setq backup-directory-alist (list (cons ".*" backup-dir)))
(setq auto-save-list-file-prefix autosave-dir)
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms `((".*" ,autosave-dir t)))

I checked backup for others files (like .emacs itself), It properly created backup for those. But It did not create backup for any version controlled files.
Can someone tell me how to debug this?

Answer 1

Try:

(setq vc-make-backup-files t)