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Merge pull request #4820 from MichaelEischer/forget-extend-descritpion 

forget: explain oldest snapshot special case in command help
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@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ var cmdForget = &cobra.Command{
The "forget" command removes snapshots according to a policy. All snapshots are
first divided into groups according to "--group-by", and after that the policy
specified by the "--keep-*" options is applied to each group individually.
If there are not enough snapshots to keep one for each duration related
"--keep-{within-,}*" option, the oldest snapshot in the group is kept
additionally.
Please note that this command really only deletes the snapshot object in the
repository, which is a reference to data stored there. In order to remove the