Used some of the more advanced features in git to delete commit history and cover up bunch of illegal activity shortly before an acquisition.
I used to feel really bad about this, but apparently there are whole teams dedicated to this sort of "cleanup" in M&A nowadays. Now I just feel bad about everything!
Without going into specifics, can you outline the kind of illegal activities that might appear in a git commit history? I'm guessing copyright infringements mostly?
Basically lots of tracking of users and reselling that data in extremely detailed ways. Whatever the marketing team demands or you're fired, that kind of environment.
I used to feel really bad about this, but apparently there are whole teams dedicated to this sort of "cleanup" in M&A nowadays. Now I just feel bad about everything!