this all started with git history rewrite in public project...
> Out of curiosity, where's the statement which explains the git history rewriting? This is the first I'm hearing of the whole thing, but rewriting git history is really suspicious tbh
> We never explained the history rewriting and we aren't obligated to. Git is a distributed VCS other people probably still have the history. We made a statement that it wasn't a supply chain attack (With other members of the greater rust community corroborating) in the now deleted reddit thread.
mintplant•1mo ago
The comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old and new HEADs. But no one did - instead they dogpiled on the maintainer who got doxed and had their home address posted.
theamk•1mo ago
> Out of curiosity, where's the statement which explains the git history rewriting? This is the first I'm hearing of the whole thing, but rewriting git history is really suspicious tbh
> We never explained the history rewriting and we aren't obligated to. Git is a distributed VCS other people probably still have the history. We made a statement that it wasn't a supply chain attack (With other members of the greater rust community corroborating) in the now deleted reddit thread.