> I just had the expectation that an empty git log as well as git reflog output would mean that no objects exist except for what represents the tree of the curr

> I just had the expectation that an empty git log as well as git reflog output would mean that no objects exist except for what represents the tree of the current HEAD. It’s a pretty common expectation but the nature of git’s object model means that generally it’s not true for any git provider. You should assume that data pushed to any git remote will live forever unless you both force push away all references to the data and GC all remotes (which for GitHub means contacting support IIRC)