"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What about an alternative term like "orphaned" or "unreferenced"? The > former is a bit more suggestive, but unfortunately might be confusing > since the terms like ancestors, parents, etc., are already being used > to talk about commit trees, which really is an orthogonal topic. The > latter term seems like it would work, though it does sound a bit > sterile. We seem to use the word "unreachable" to refer to them. E.g. fsck and prune do "reachability analysis". - 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