From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:04:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g
Message-ID: <7vk6fgz5nc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511101317500.25300@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> ... (That is, you 
> want the head of an unreachable chain listed for recovery, but not other 
> things reachable from it; you also may want the list of blobs and trees 
> not reachable either from a ref or from something listed for recovery, but 
> not omitting a blob reachable only from an unreachable tree)

I thought that was what those 'dangling blah' was about...
That is, if you make commit A and then on top of that commit B,
and lose both, you will see dnagling for B but not A (which is
reachable from B).