[gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 May 2018, 9:51 am Winfried Tilanus, <winfried at tilanus.com> wrote:

> On 05/25/2018 10:35 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Git is certainly not an unchangeable record, on a technical level. It's
> > just that certain repositories have a policy of not rebasing to remove
> > PII and similar from history.
>
> Being only a basic Git user, I need your experience here: how practical
> is rebasing to remove a commit message or an e-mail address from a
> commit two years ago?
>

Technically it's completely trivial and possible to automate.

Everyone pulling the repository will have to deal with the result: they
will need to manually reconcile the new and old state via a rebase or
merge. This is something that's part of the workflow of some large
repositories.

The result is somewhat more painful to work with, but that's a workflow and
policy issue rather than a technical one ...

>
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