Comment by plastic041

> Also Bend's stars came on the V1 launch. This is V2. It already had 20k before.

This is the reason you should not reomve your commit history. How would anyone know that there were V1, and it was already popular?

If you need to remove sensitive data, you should use tools like git-filter-repo.

- https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

- https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo