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Fwd: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?

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David Jeske <davidj@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2013, 15:36 UTC
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On Aug 12, 2013 11:06 PM, "Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?

Any commit which I did not explicitly do something with. (Merge, rebase, amend, branch name, discard)

Today every one of those actions is explicit except discard.
> 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.
This is *exactly* my point.

There is no way to distinguish a commit which was accidentally and implicitly dangled due to checkout or submodule update on a detached head, from all those other intentionally dangling refs which were explicitly handled with merge, rebase, amend.

Ephemeral branches would change only the implicit discard.. Turning it into a named branch and requiring an explicit discard.

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Message 22 of 24 in “ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?”
  1. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederAug 12, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  4. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  5. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  6. Duy NguyenAug 12, 2013
  7. Andreas SchwabAug 12, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  9. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  10. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  12. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  14. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2013
  16. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  17. Jeff KingAug 14, 2013
  18. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  19. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  20. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  21. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  22. Fwd: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?David Jeske, Aug 13, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013

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