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bug in "git fsck"?

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UWUlrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date
Jul 2, 2021, 14:01 UTC
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Hi!

I was wondering whether git fsck should be able to cleanup orphaned branches ("HEAD points to an unborn branch") as described in https://stackoverflow.com/q/68226081/6607497 It seems I can fix it be editing files in the repository, but I feed that's not the way it should be.

Regards, Ulrich

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