On Sat, 20 May 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> What's wrong here?
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
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