Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The final fetch output looks like: > > - [deleted] (none) -> origin/branches > - [deleted] (none) -> origin/main > (refs/remotes/origin/HEAD has become dangling) > - [deleted] (none) -> origin/other > > and we can see that the deletion of "main" is what caused the dangling. > > That said, I'm not sure I care that much. I didn't even know we had this > dangling message, and it's been around for over 15 years! Same here. I agree that the new output, while it may look prettier, loses information. I agree with your conclusion that the user who really cares can check with symbolic-ref themselves.