This is a strange take, in my opinion. Dangling commits like those you describe will be cleaned up by the the garbage collector. To say that a “branch” exists w

This is a strange take, in my opinion. Dangling commits like those you describe will be cleaned up by the the garbage collector. To say that a “branch” exists without a branch ref pointing to it is at best purely pedantic. Without a ref there is no meaningful branch because it will disappear eventually.