A conflict during sync or merge is something that requires user intervention, or at least notification. For that reason it would be nice if git annex returned a nonzero exit status when such a conflict happened during a sync or a merge. This is what git does after a conflicting pull, and would make it easier to spot a conflict in automated syncs without having to parse annex output or the logs.

> Good idea, [[done]]. --[[Joey]] 

Also, it would be nice if your new `git annex status` were able to inform about remaining conflicts in the repo, for instance by reporting files with variant-XXX suffix.

> Hmm, that would need a separate pass through the whole tree, since
> currently it can use `git ls-files` to find only modified/deleted/new
> files. I would rather not make the new `git annex status` slower for
> this.
> 
> It would be possible to add it to `git annex info` (old `status`)
> which already has to look through the entire work tree.