• orygin@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    Plus won’t the forks on GitHub keep the history before the “reset”?
    Afaik, forks on GitHub are basically the same underlying repository, just a branch associated with another user. They won’t be able to really purge anything from these other branches.
    Plus anyone who has a local copy of the repo or an automatic mirror somewhere else, will have the changes available.

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      21 hours ago

      Yes, forks remain as they are. Yes, the fork network has a shared data repository on GitHub.

      Consequently, rewritten history will break history compatibility, possibly requiring manual fixups on forks or work based on it.