[gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Daniel Stone 2018-05-25 <CAPj87rOE9hkVkMknZoMNkp_zpKcKgXd868vULPV5vLV-MwT2wg at mail.gmail.com>
> > 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 ...

This is totally impractical. Suggesting that rebasing larger git
repositories is feasible in practise is nonsense.

Christoph