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Android syncthing repo gone and Developer profile gone private. (github.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by cm0002@digipres.cafe to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] somewa@suppo.fi 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Any ideas why this happened?

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Coding is "illegal" now, remember?

[–] somewa@suppo.fi 17 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like it's just random commenters taking random guesses because those have happened before.

What is a “repository reset”? One commenter writes:

There was a temporary similar “outage” back in July with rewritten history, apparently something inappropriate was recorded in the repo history they wanted cleaned out. The repo came back after that. I have no idea if this is the same thing, or if they just got tired of maintaining it.

Seems strange to me. You can prep locally and then force-push. I don't see why rewriting history would require taking the repository down.

[–] somewa@suppo.fi 1 points 56 minutes ago

If he pushed something he shouldn't have online then taking it offline immediately makes a lot of sense.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 14 hours ago

Oh shit. What do now.