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Re: dangling trees

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RKRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date
May 5, 2005, 13:17 UTC
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<20050505141710.B8323@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:12:25PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
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> In todays 2.6 git repo, I see the following:
> 
> $ fsck-cache
> expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information
> dangling commit 897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d
> dangling tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a
> 
> The dangling commit is the current head - that's fine.  However,
> what's this dangling tree?
> 
> It appears to have come in from Linus' tree on kernel.org this morning.
> 
> (above from cogito 0.8)

As an additional note, the ID does not correspond with any tags or heads:

.git/refs/heads/master:897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d .git/refs/heads/origin:897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d .git/refs/tags/v2.6.11:5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c .git/refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree:5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c .git/refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc2:9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f .git/refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc3:0397236d43e48e821cce5bbe6a80a1a56bb7cc3a

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