Setting nameless-current-name disables directory-local nameless-aliases

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I have nameless from MELPA (Package-Version: 20190429.1202 Version: 1.0.2) on GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-03-28, modified by Debian

I use it in my project Chronometrist, which is an Org literate program containing Emacs Lisp source blocks. I have a .dir-locals.el in the project root containing the following -

((nil . ((nameless-aliases . (("cb" . "chronometrist-backend")
                              ("cc" . "chronometrist-common")
                              ("cd" . "chronometrist-details")
                              ("ck" . "chronometrist-key-values")
                              ("cm" . "chronometrist-migrate")
                              ("cp" . "chronometrist-plist-pp")
                              ("cr" . "chronometrist-report")
                              ("cs" . "chronometrist-statistics")))))
 ...)

If I enable nameless-mode in chronometrist.org and run M-x nameless-insert-name, I get user-error: No name for current buffer, see ‘nameless-current-name’. (Interestingly, nameless-insert-name works after evaluating (setq nameless-current-name "chronometrist") in the buffer, without the problem I describe next.)

If I type M-x add-file-local-variable RET nameless-current-name RET "chronometrist" RET, save, and revert, the directory-local variables cease to take effect (e.g. what was cd:intervals becomes c:details-intervals), but nameless-insert-name now works.