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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> ... (That is, you 
> want the head of an unreachable chain listed for recovery, but not other 
> things reachable from it; you also may want the list of blobs and trees 
> not reachable either from a ref or from something listed for recovery, but 
> not omitting a blob reachable only from an unreachable tree)

I thought that was what those 'dangling blah' was about...
That is, if you make commit A and then on top of that commit B,
and lose both, you will see dnagling for B but not A (which is
reachable from B).