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EugeneOZ on July 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for usi...

I don't understand why they don't filter it on upload stage ("push"). "git push" > "sorry, can't push because of words: [list of words here]". Is it more difficult than later disable whole repo because of one stupid joke?

danielparks on July 29, 2015 [–]

Because you may need to put those words in a repo in a non-offensive context. For example, a list of "bad" words to look for.

EugeneOZ on July 29, 2015 | | [–]

I'm against censorship at all, but when humans are involved in process, it becomes much worse.

Cthulhu_ on July 29, 2015 | | [–]

You could work with hashed variants in that case; there might be performance benefits there, too.

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