On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 07:55:16PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> The distinction between deleting a reference and deleting objects is
> an important one, so I'd like to mention it in the docs of got ref -d.
> 
> This is self-evident to advanced users and also mentioned elsewhere,
> but it might get overlooked if a new user wants to use ref -d specifically
> to get rid of old automatically backed up commits.
> 
> Since we don't have our own garbage collector yet, we recommend
> the one from Git; this is also done elsewhere and can be adjusted
> once we have our own.
> 
> ok?

ok jrick

> 
> diff 4e20a6488836bfbb096ecad1bad212e094cc8624 /home/stsp/src/got
> blob - 5b538ecd34e3cfd6ed3313e82c52125d334b4c3e
> file + got/got.1
> --- got/got.1
> +++ got/got.1
> @@ -972,6 +972,9 @@ Cannot be used together with any other options except
>  Delete the reference with the specified
>  .Ar name
>  from the repository.
> +Any commit, tree, tag, and blob objects belonging to deleted references
> +remain in the repository and may be removed separately with
> +Git's garbage collector.
>  Cannot be used together with any other options except
>  .Fl r .
>  .El
>