Some questions about rdiff-backup-delete

Dieter Heußner <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:00:56 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID	<4808827.31r3eYUQgx@hp15>

Let /path/to/destination be the destination directory of an rdiff-backup call.

rdiff-backup creates and maintains a database of meta information in 
subdirectory rdiff-backup-data, to be more precisely in
/path/to/destination/rdiff-backup-data

Question:
When calling rdiff-backup-delete is called, for example,

rdiff-backup-delete /path/to/destination/abc/def

to delete subdirectory "def" (or a file "def"), all meta information of "def" 
is dropped in /path/to/destination/rdiff-backup-data.

But does rdiff-backup-delete also delete /path/to/destination/abc/def?
Or "def" be deleted manually by the administrator?

Could you clarify this issue, and also put your answer into the official 
documentation of rdiff-backup-delete, please?

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