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by sgbeal 3840 days ago
i've been on the fossil dev team since 2008, and i have seen many people claim that it "could" be compromised/modified post facto, and yet... nobody has been able to do it. Fossil's core data model does not just _assume_ that history doesn't change - it makes it essentially impossible to do.

Shunning is a special case which removes a given artifact from the db, but is considered a "nuclear option" of last resort. i've never personally used it.