If anyone has ever cloned the project, Github cannot hold your code to ransom because you already have a copy of it and the whole history including commit messa

If anyone has ever cloned the project, Github cannot hold your code to ransom because you already have a copy of it and the whole history including commit messages. That is the beauty of git. Github do have your issues and un-merged pull requests "to ransom", though. Make sure to back those up if they are important.