Hi, On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Mike Coleman wrote: > I've been reading and rereading the git documentation and tripping > slightly over the word "dangling", as in "dangling object". In > traditional use, one might talk of a dangling pointer A, where A points > to B and B is destroyed/invalidated/etc. As a literal example, A might > be a machine address like 0x8808FEFE, which points to an area of memory > that once had a particular meaning, but now does not, leaving the > pointer "dangling". Think of the history as a large tree with branches. If a branch is dangling, it is about to be pruned. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html