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gehenna14

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[Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

Hello.
I stupidly doxed my real name in a few commits in the couple of packages I maintain on the AUR.
specifically qlipper and tango-icon-theme both have my full name in one of the commits in each package.
How can I remove them? I don't want this information to be public.
Thank you

Last edited by gehenna14 (2025-12-16 14:32:23)

system72

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

email arch dev or tu

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gromit

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

Which identity would you like to use instead?

gehenna14

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

email arch dev or tu

Is there a specific mailing list where I can post about it on the arch mailing list? I don't want to bother anyone specifically but I couldn't find one on the arch mailing lists.

Which identity would you like to use instead?

Just gehenna14 w/ my email. I already edited the packages to say that again but the bad commits are still in the commit history.

Last edited by gehenna14 (2025-12-16 13:03:28)

system72

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

the list is https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/li … linux.org/

for anonymity you could have emailed a tu or arch dev directly

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gromit

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

From what I can see the commits are already authored by "gehenna14 <slkcrurzlmuq@use.startmail.com>", is this not correct?

system72

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

From what I can see the commits are already authored by "gehenna14 <slkcrurzlmuq@use.startmail.com>", is this not correct?

its hidden inside of a commit

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 68da659df0

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 3f409824ff

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gehenna14

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

From what I can see the commits are already authored by "gehenna14 <slkcrurzlmuq@use.startmail.com>", is this not correct?

on qlipper check commit  2050e015b260212585e151ec92ed9668da659df0
on tango-icon-theme  commit    fa5eb22715eaa43830a9c0f843731b3f409824ff (although this one might end up messing up the commits afterward so I'm not sure)

gromit

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

So the name should be hidden and the email should be "bernkastel..."?

gehenna14

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

So the name should be hidden and the email should be "bernkastel..."?

It should be ideally be like:

# Maintainer: gehenna14 <bernkastel...>

Last edited by gehenna14 (2025-12-16 13:51:17)

gromit

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

So like this? https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 140c9dd762 Please confirm and I can check the other package aswell

gehenna14

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

So like this? https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 140c9dd762 Please confirm and I can check the other package aswell

Yes. Thank you

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

Also changed the qlipper git history, please check that everything is as expected!

gehenna14

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Re: [Solved] Need help removing bad aur commits

Also changed the qlipper git history, please check that everything is as expected!

Everything appears to be as expected. Thank you