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Yeah learned this the hard way.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago

They most likely did in a later commit. However the commit adding it can not be removed as OP said. So in order for git to be able to work properly the file is still in the repository in case someone wants to check out a commit where it still was present.