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by CanaryLayout 812 days ago
Well isn't this an interesting commit. He finished his inject macro to compose the payload at build, so now he can start clearing up the repo so none of that shit gets seen when cruising through it.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=4323bc3e0c1...

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That's not what gitignore does. I can't think of a way it would let you hide this exploit.
Accidentally committing it.
Makes it a bit harder for sure. What actually happens if you git add something that's ignored? I assumed it would still let you do it, but never tried.