From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:20:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git fsck: unreachable vs. dangling
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuODrwq-MSp53zacgfcevX7tdtfPEC+fyTrWrnTKaFKO1g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuOuMnAsP12dukPSP31ABRoUc=s7iZFnca9-K2hOcog9cQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Sebastian Schuberth
<sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

>> A dangling object is an unreachable object that cannot be
>> made reachable by any way other than pointing at it
>> directly with a ref.
>
> Thanks a lot for the prompt explanation!

Note to myself: I just realized that both "dangling" and "unreachable"
are also nicely defined in the Git glossary [1].

[1] http://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary/

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth