Comment by Osiris
2 years ago
So does that mean that forked repos don't do garbage collection of unreferenced commits?
If I force push and orphan a commit, I expect that will get garbage collected and be gone forever.
Or if I commit a file I shouldn't have and rewrite my repo history and push up a whole new history, is the old history still hanging out forever?
If true, then it seems that there is no way to delete any commits at all from any repo that has any forks?
> If true, then it seems that there is no way to delete any commits at all from any repo that has any forks?
I do not believe the presence of forks matters. Or rather, your version is the initial fork.
My impression is that garbage collection is an expensive and disruptive option (to all forks) and so there's no button or API for it. Hence the recommendations to contact support if you accidentally commit an API KEY or the like (but really, you have already rotated that key, right?)