A dangling commit. Not referenced, not reachable, but intact. Somewhere between Fallujah’s dust storms and a faulty power supply, the hard drive had written a complete tree object and then forgotten it existed.
Staff Sergeant Miller loomed over her shoulder, coffee in hand. “Fix it.” source tree portable
She opened the portable app. The interface loaded fast—too fast for a machine this beaten-up. She clicked , pointed to the damaged drive, and instead of panicking, SourceTree Portable’s custom script—a little batch file she’d written ages ago—kicked in. It scanned the partial object database, cross-referenced with an old packed-refs backup she’d stored on the same USB. A dangling commit