From: Daniel Barkalow Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:09:53 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vk6fgz5nc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow 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). Right; what I was pointing out is that you want the dangling commits, but the unreachable blobs and trees, and want reachability to count things listed as dangling, which is a somewhat novel combination of desires, I think. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*