Jakub Narebski wrote:
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>Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept
>> by gc as described above, however...
>> I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does
>> exactly what you describe.

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>Well, IIRC the need for this was one of the causes of "death" of 'prior'
>header link proposal...

As I understood it, one of the causes of death of the "prior" link
proposal was that it was unclear if it pulled in the linked-to commits
upon fetch.  In the "origin" case, the default is *not* to fetch them.
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Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"There are three types of people in the world;
 those who can count, and those who can't."
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