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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>
> No. The last statement run will be (message ...) and the doc string
> for message says "Return the message".
>
> Just add nil if you want it to return nil:
>
> (defun ls-git-files ()
>  (if
>      (file-exists-p ".git")
>      (split-string (shell-command-to-string "git ls-files"))
>    (message "not a git repo")
>    nil))

Ah good thanks, a non related question, why the last message written in
*Messages* is not automatically saved somewhere?

I mean, sometimes it's useful to get it, without going to the *Messages*
buffer every time...