On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> 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
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