From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:03:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Isn't "dangling" a misnomer?
Message-ID: <7virdolm8u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20702260835v4865ace1u18a20f6b1d0030b5@mail.gmail.com>

"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com> writes:

> What about an alternative term like "orphaned" or "unreferenced"?  The
> former is a bit more suggestive, but unfortunately might be confusing
> since the terms like ancestors, parents, etc., are already being used
> to talk about commit trees, which really is an orthogonal topic.  The
> latter term seems like it would work, though it does sound a bit
> sterile.

We seem to use the word "unreachable" to refer to them.
E.g. fsck and prune do "reachability analysis".