Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by mdavidn on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:39PM
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Git does have a mechanism to remove data from history. It's ugly, and you end up with new commit hashes, but it works. It was designed for situations in which a developer accidentally adds something sensitive, like a production database snapshot, to source control.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by ptest1 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:45PM
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Yeah so you could do a rebase and remove all of the user’s commits, but their work would likely still remain in the subsequent history- integrated as changes in some way. It would be a real mess.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by zbentley on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:58AM
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Users' contributions (their work) and users' personal information (their metadata) are separate in this case.
Cases where they are not separate (think digital signatures/signing keys) are a slightly more complicated question to answer.