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Re:GitHub Turned into an Enterprise Under Microsoft? by aliostad on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:54AM (#22179239)
This is essentially what I did using bfg tool. They still took it down.

https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/r...

Re:GitHub Turned into an Enterprise Under Microsoft? by zegerjan on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:42AM (#22179491)
I'm saying the blob was in a new repository, you had no control over. You couldn't have removed it, you could only make sure it doesn't get referenced in _your_ repository. Which is what you did.
Re:GitHub Turned into an Enterprise Under Microsoft? by aliostad on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:22AM (#22179708)
sure, but I imagine they have already removed those forks too.

Have a look at this list https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-2...