Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > The pseudo ref certainly has an appeal. For people very familiar with > Git's peculiarities such as FETCH_HEAD. Such as myself. > > For users, it is probably substantially worse an experience than having a > cmdmode like --show-patch in the very command they were just running. I tend to agree with that assessment. FETCH_HEAD was a required mechanism for commands in the toolchain to communicate and wasn't meant as a mechanism for end-users. I do not think it is a good idea to add to the pile to these special files the users would need to look at, when we do not need to. Even if the internal implementation uses such a file, wrapping it with a documented command mode would make a better UI.
