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On Git's Shortcomings
- jhull 13y agoThere are ways to obliterate from git[1], but to your point of complexity, its not as easy as just "git obliterate some-file" [1] https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data
- peterlundgren 13y agoCorrect, I acknowledge that: On the other hand, once it’s public, it’s public for good. Git makes cryptographic guarantees that ensure that if someone tries to rewrite history to obliterate a file, every clone of that repository will notice at the next fetch (perhaps to the ire of your fellow developers).