> offending commits will still also be available on GitHub (at least until the next garbage collection), No. Forever. Literally forever. GitHub does not run ga

> offending commits will still also be available on GitHub (at least until the next garbage collection), No. Forever. Literally forever. GitHub does not run garbage collection, like, ever. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4367977/how-to-remove-a-dangling-commit-from-github/4368673#4368673 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4367977/how-to-remove-a-... Dangling commit from 14 years ago : https://github.com/nylen/connectbot/commit/1cd775d https://github.com/nylen/connectbot/commit/1cd775d There is only one way to delete data on github permanently and that's to request it from github support. Still, you would have better luck just deleting your repository and starting over from scratch, deleting your history locally and pushing from a pristine state.