Commit aaf7c34214dd2b9488e35801416816d063be14df

Stefan Sperling 2021-07-03T21:47:55

document an issue with disk space savings reported by 'gotadmin cleanup'

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diff --git a/gotadmin/gotadmin.1 b/gotadmin/gotadmin.1
index 54da41f..4852f9d 100644
--- a/gotadmin/gotadmin.1
+++ b/gotadmin/gotadmin.1
@@ -287,3 +287,14 @@ Exporting data from repositories requires
 Importing data into repositories requires
 .Xr git-fast-import 1 .
 .El
+.Sh BUGS
+Disk space savings reported by
+.Cm gotadmin cleanup
+will be misleading if the repository contains object files that were
+hard-linked from another repository.
+Such hard-links will be created by certain
+.Xr git 1
+commands.
+By itself,
+.Xr got 1
+will never create hard-linked object files.