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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

After reviewing the documentation, it’s clear as day that GitHub designed repositories to work like this.

Sounds like they wanted to find a problem but it turned out to be a feature.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, pretty much everyone agrees that once something goes to git it lasts forever.

The fact they call out that secret keys must be rotated if committed, makes me think they thought just deleting a commit was enough 🤦

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

a problem that is documented is obviously a feature