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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 08:16:
> ...
>> For example, how would you design the user experience of "git show NEXT"?
>> Try to write a transcript (i.e. "The user starts from this state, runs
>> these commands, and then says 'git show NEXT'. The user will see this."),
>> covering various corner cases exhaustively, including what would happen
>> before the first commit, and during a conflicted "pull" or "rebase -i".
>>  ...
> That is why the other Michael suggested "NEXT" as opposed to "INDEX":

That is why I asked what the user experience of "git show NEXT" as opposed
to "git show INDEX" should look like. So what should it look like during a
"pull" that did not finish?