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kaliqt on March 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser...

You can't just go and rip out old code, it'll break everything else, you have to review each commit and decide what to do with each.

maerF0x0 on March 30, 2024 [–]

"immediately" could mean have humans swarm on the task and make a choice, as opposed to

    for commit in author_commits
        git revert $commit

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