From: Raimund Bauer Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:11:30 GMT Subject: RE: [PATCH] git-explain Message-ID: <001b01c7184d$5d142c20$0b0aa8c0@abf.local> In-Reply-To: <7v1wnekh6a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> > An issue with this approach is that this can be the beginning > of hardwiring the official "right way of doing things" in the > set of tools. Pursuing this approach would enhance the set > of state markers like "FAILED_MERGE" in the example, which means: Wouldn't it be better to create some kind of action-log (that's cleared at the end of the command if everything was all right) instead of creating special markers for different commands? That way there would be only 1 place to check for what happened ... -- best regards Ray