Re: dangling commits.

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Dave Jones wrote:

Nothing, except

 - you used rsync to fetch the thing (so you get all objects, regardless 
   of whether they are reachable or not)

 - junio re-bases his "pu" branch, and I just end up following him (I 
   should stop exporting git entirely, here's no point, really). Thus, 
   whenever "pu" gets reset to something else, the old head of pu gets 
   dropped on the floor and ends up as a "dangling" commit (no branch head 
   points to it any more).

The moral(s) of the story being that

 (a) dangling commits are normal if you reset branch heads (which includes 
     things like "git rebase", for example)

 (b) rsync is not a good transfer protocol, since it will just blindly 
     transfer objects that aren't needed - or worse - successfully clone a 
     corrupt repository.

but there's nothing to _worry_ about in this particular schenario.

		Linus