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fsck missing dangling commits that are candidate heads?

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SCSergio Callegari <scallegari@arces.unibo.it>
Date
Apr 3, 2007, 19:41 UTC
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<loom.20070403T213135-68@post.gmane.org>
Hi,
on git 1.5.0.6, I have done the following:
work work
git commit -a
git reset HEAD^         (assume a mistake)
git fsck

the last fsck shows nothing... Is this correct? Shouldn't the latest commit (the one made unreachable by the reset) be reported as dangling and as a candidate branch head?

Also git lost-found misses the commit... But it is there... I can find it manually in the object database and tag it.

And finally...

Also git gc --prune seems to miss the commit... so when we gc useless objects appear to be kept around.

Is this correct?
Thanks,
Sergio
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