Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2012, #09; Sun, 26)

On 27 February 2012 08:49, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

* cb/fsck-squelch-dangling (2012-02-26) 1 commit
 - fsck: do not print dangling objects by default

Introduces "fsck --dangling" and removes the output for dangling objects
from the default output.

I personally do not think it is worth risking backward compatibility in
the way this patch implements the squelching of the output.  An approach
to add --no-dangling option without changing the default would be OK,
though.

Agree. I use this functionality a lot, and this change would break a
script I use to restore dangling commits. There's probably some
(dirty) way around it, but I'd prefer if the backwards compatibility
is retained.

BTW, the script I use is located at
<https://github.com/sunny256/utils/blob/master/git-dangling> and I
find it quite useful. Do you think it could be a contrib/ candidate?

Cheers,
Øyvind