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Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> True, but the scenario described on StackOverflow is a bit different.
> Commits were filtered out, and branches still pointing to them cannot
> be deleted with "git branch -d" or "git branch -D".  Git fsck only
> reports them.

I have a feeling that the "filtering out" process shouldn't leave
these stale branches hanging around in the first place (in other
words, it's the job of such a tool that deliberately "corrupts" the
repository to remove these branches, so that the user won't have to).

But I agree that it should be easy to recover from such a deliberate
repository corruption.