dalehagglund/magit — comment on commit 622781bc05a58170748d22d1303cbc29f19ab751
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By sigma:

sure, I totally understand your point and as I said, that'd be something nice to have.
Now, from a conceptual point of view, magit-visit-item always brings up something on which you can continue working (be it a file, a branch, a commit...). On the other hand, calling magit-show results in something more like a view of something that's immutable and cannot be used as part of a git operation.
That's why I'm wondering if we should introduce some `magit-view-item` action, and if there are other operations we could give a similar semantic.

Admittedly that's a open question :)

Regarding C-u, currently it's used to visit in "other-window". I personally don't have a strong preference for that, but changing it would require some solid rationale.