dangling trees

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dangling trees

From: Russell King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:56

In todays 2.6 git repo, I see the following:

$ fsck-cache
expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information
dangling commit 897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d
dangling tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a

The dangling commit is the current head - that's fine.  However,
what's this dangling tree?

It appears to have come in from Linus' tree on kernel.org this morning.

(above from cogito 0.8)

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Re: dangling trees

From: bert hubert <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:56

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:12:25PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
$ fsck-cache
expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information
See the message on 'nightly kernel builds' - you are seeing 2.6.11 probably.

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Re: dangling trees

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:56


On Thu, 5 May 2005, Russell King wrote:
In todays 2.6 git repo, I see the following:

$ fsck-cache
expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information
dangling commit 897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d
dangling tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a

The dangling commit is the current head - that's fine.  However,
what's this dangling tree?
That's the 2.6.11 tree, which I added to have a previous real release to 
diff against.
It appears to have come in from Linus' tree on kernel.org this morning.
Yes. You can make (my) fsck shut up with something like

	refs=.git/refs/*/*
	git-fsck-cache $refs

but that assumes that cogito has been updated to the newer fsck that 
understands to follow tags (not just parse them, but also add the "tag 
refers to object xxx" info to its internal tree of trust). I don't think 
that has happened yet.

In the meantime, just ignore it. 

		Linus
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