Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this episode, what Sebastian discussed had really resonated with me. I am fortunate enough to live a pretty comfortable life, but can't help but notice the psychological effects that it has on me. Some of his points gave me a deeper insight into what I may be feeling, and it was quite intoxicating to discover that :)
You're welcome! It was a quite fascinating discovery for me as well. It's amazing where we are as humanity. Yet sad that we're so comfortable that it's literally making us insane.
Why would they if the tip does not have any passwords in it? It's not like a potential contributor will search the commit log to see if there were once passwords around. Besides, making such changes in public changesets is rude, to say the least.
What I mean is, lots of folks seem to be saying to ignore the presence of the file and just change the password where it's used.
Removing the file, or the password and adding a comment, as well as changing the password where it's used is much less likely to end up with a re-added password later.
Of course, removing the file, adding it to .gitignore and changing the password makes it even harder as a contributor would have to work to add the password back, which is even less likely to happen.
