From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Isn't "dangling" a misnomer?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:03:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7virdolm8u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20702260835v4865ace1u18a20f6b1d0030b5@mail.gmail.com> (Mike Coleman's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:35:50 -0600")
"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com> 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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-26 16:35 Isn't "dangling" a misnomer? Mike Coleman
2007-02-26 17:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-26 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-02-26 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-04 18:07 ` Add dangling object and unreachable object in glossary.txt Yasushi SHOJI
2007-03-04 19:03 ` Josef Sipek
2007-03-04 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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