“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.
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.
Ah thanks, this explains it a bit more.