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Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

> Is ther eany way to clean up such a situation and really get  rid  of
> the  dangling  commits?  I understand that I'd first need some way to
> "unpack" the packs, but how to do this? 

The easiest is to repack into a single big ball of wax:

	$ git repack -a -d

If you know the pack the stale object is in, you can move it out
of objects/pack/ and repack only that one.

	$ mv .git/objects/packs/pack-$badone.{idx,pack} .
	$ git unpack-objects <pack-$badone.pack
        $ git repack

After you are done:

	$ git prune