Accidental commits/pushes do happen, too. Keys, connection strings, even just mildly embarrassing comments that might show your penchant for Taylor Swift lyrics

Accidental commits/pushes do happen, too. Keys, connection strings, even just mildly embarrassing comments that might show your penchant for Taylor Swift lyrics. Impossible to remove those completely, as far as I understand it, from existing repositories, but new clones it is possible, and it's a damn sight preferable to a commit with message "oops, didn't mean to share this" which _duplicates_ the accident.