Today we log a "deleting snapshots [...] from repository [...]" message at INFO level [almost the first thing](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/dfaec0dbf0c8a0ba2912381334019725848f1f5a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotsService.java#L1886-L1888) when we start the deletion. However, the requested snapshots may not exist or they may be wildcards to be matched against actual snapshots. In these cases, the log message is either misleading or insuffiicent. Instead we should log the message after we have successfully added the delete to the cluster state similar to how the [logging works for snapshot creation](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/f77c16b78bab5e9f3ee24974aeba408e254e8c94/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotsService.java#L3804).
server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotsService.java
}
            });
        }, onFailure));
    }
    /** Deletes snapshot from repository
     *
     * @param deleteEntry       delete entry in cluster state
     * @param repositoryData    the {@link RepositoryData} of the repository to delete from
     * @param minNodeVersion    minimum node version in the cluster
     */
    private void deleteSnapshotsFromRepository(
        SnapshotDeletionsInProgress.Entry deleteEntry,
        RepositoryData repositoryData,
        IndexVersion minNodeVersion
    ) {
        if (repositoryOperations.startDeletion(deleteEntry.uuid())) {
            assert currentlyFinalizing.contains(deleteEntry.repository());
            final List<SnapshotId> snapshotIds = deleteEntry.getSnapshots();
            assert deleteEntry.state() == SnapshotDeletionsInProgress.State.STARTED : "incorrect state for entry [" + deleteEntry + "]";
            if (snapshotIds.isEmpty()) {
                
                
                
                
                removeSnapshotDeletionFromClusterState(
                    deleteEntry,
                    repositoryData,
                    listeners -> completeListenersIgnoringException(listeners, null)
                );
                return;