Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:
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+ branch. *This can abandon commits in the origin repository.*
I liked your wording with the commits becoming dangling better.
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+That is, commits A and B would belong to an unreachable branch without a
+symbolic name.
Perhaps it would be better to say those commits "would no longer
belong to a branch with a symbolic name, and thus become unreachable"?
I agree with you on both counts.