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Well well well. (lemmy.ml)

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Yeah learned this the hard way.

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[–] Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

Because the git history will still keep it completely to be able to restore it once you go to a commit in which it wasn't deleted.

And you cannot tell git to completely forget about it as that requires a rewrite of history and this changes all commit hashes which are touched (and any future ones).