Re: bug in "git fsck"?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2021, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqczs0popg.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <60DF1C22020000A100042225@gwsmtp.uni-regensburg.de>

"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

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> I was wondering whether git fsck should be able to cleanup
> orphaned branches ("HEAD points to an unborn branch") as described
> in https://stackoverflow.com/q/68226081/6607497 It seems I can fix
> it be editing files in the repository, but I feed that's not the
> way it should be.

HEAD pointing at an unborn branch is not even a corruption, isn't it?

   $ rm -rf trash && git init trash

would point HEAD at an unborn one, ready to be used.