From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:49:46 GMT
Subject: Re: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?
Message-ID: <7vk3jpy1qt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dke6Pezqsdcjzejc_cWCgOGTGs8LifjM2h2TQJy7N4HA@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM, David Jeske <davidj@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there currently any way to say "hey, git, show me what commits are
>> dangling that might be lost in the reflog?"
>
> How do you define dangling commits? When you do "git commit --amend",
> the current commit will become dangling (in the sense that it's not
> referred by any ref, but the commit exists) and those are just noise
> in my opinion.

"fsck lost-and-found" would be one way.  It would be nice if we had
something like (note: the following will _NOT_ work)

	git log -g HEAD --not --branches

to say "walk the reflog of HEAD, but exclude anything that can be
reached from the tips of branches".