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This is breathtakingly bad advice from a security perspective. If secrets might sit around in a repository you don't just publish it and bet on people not looking for them, at least not if data security is of any worth to you.

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That is not what i said. I said he should delete history and publish a new version with a new commit "v1"

You literally edited that in after my answer.

Gosh I wish there was a history available so I could understand all this context!

Read it in the context of OP's question - GP is suggesting squashing all history and not worrying about it, as OP alluded to.

Yes, I see how it can be understood that way. GP has edited it anyways to clarify this point.

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