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Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews (cybernews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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“The implication here is that any code committed to a public repository may be accessible forever as long as there is at least one fork of that repository,” the report’s authors claim.

Am I dumb or is this exactly the purpose of forks? I feel like I'm missing something.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In my experience with GitHub, dropped commits remain indefinitely accessible. I use this to my advantage on pull requests with lots of good commit context that I don't want totally lost in a squash: by copying result of git log --oneline main... into the PR body. The SHAs remain accessible even after I force push my branch down to a single commit.

I think there is a theoretical limit to how long these commits remain accessible, but I haven't ever hit it in my daily usage.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago

Ah thanks, this explains it a bit more.