GitHub support request - purge cached views and pull refs (AFEX)

Paste everything below the line into a GitHub Support ticket (category: Sensitive data removal / "Removing sensitive data from a repository", account: angelEmbeddedEra, organisation EmbeddedEra).

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Subject: Please run a cache purge / gc for rewritten history in 10 EmbeddedEra repositories

Hello,

We are the owner (EmbeddedEra, a GitHub organisation) of the repositories listed below. They contained third-party-library names and files that we do not have the right to keep publishing. On 2026-10-06 we rewrote the full history of each repository with git-filter-repo (paths removed, text replaced, commit messages scrubbed, zip contents repacked) and force-pushed all branches and tags. A fresh mirror of every branch and tag now returns zero hits for the string. What we cannot remove ourselves:

1. Cached views and old objects: the old commits listed below remain reachable by SHA through the web UI / API.
2. The read-only refs/pull/*/head refs (they still resolve the old commits). The pull requests are all merged or closed.
3. Cow_Robot_Board only: a release asset PDF in a release from before the purge (the rebuilt asset has been re-uploaded with --clobber; please purge any retained copy of the previous one).

Please (a) remove the cached views for the SHAs below, (b) delete or rewrite the listed refs/pull/* refs, and (c) run a server-side garbage collection on each repository so the unreachable objects are dropped. Please also tell us if any forks or other network members exist that still hold these objects.

Repositories (github.com/EmbeddedEra/), old commit SHAs that contained the material, and pull refs to purge:

KiCad

Old SHAs that held the material:

0331b7feea3f89c15b7220f2cf8a6d7090eecd58
0bdf64c13471258e3116b54abbb0c817c92a318f
1ada4366d8d403cf08e4e93cfb05cab1aa0b7b44
380fc9844fd35779f97e3bb9145cb54c3daff016
43f6d33fe34524fd93c0b70ad79f65df50ffa034
47d66cdebe465e5e8f1adb4b4fc94700da547587
5c6edbe123b7a6765ad53a0427775fb9fd7de753
616559bb5c93681c885a6df9b962f6cd5d7dff30
7e939d7d773217fd0be17749b143940b037adc54
87796adaca06d32eb17259c530a0cd4be263dda6
91f97474a20c4e4a81cf0c6f23e3e7113de41bbd
9be8bc0b190e30cbfdefee8540285d0e34352662
a41a122c31c92ef8c217375d61ea252f74b52542
aa877f92860ffab50d48d596af2f0f18fde37565
bd0d6278bee3cfccab8d0ab9707750d3e942e578
cb9f24c9e0029fb5e4c9d0cb958b9445ca2c3464
d868bdd2ffeecd96b950e8f06be97811f0499847
f6d91dd1db5b6c22fdfd6ba79d45d9a1ab8b305c
fc6e2c8f66edf513eb8788f938a6eecbf13e0e7f

Pull refs: none.

Cow_Robot_Board

Old SHAs that held the material:

0de0895023ab59ad25ab503f56c1671b8cc44d27
169201a74b685df2180fa9ed118a0f98f6f4bdc1
3729e2df0d8f350ff382b50d5e16410d0b26c11a
399f8ee8b656a306ce2e5658695567f4f9b5346f
8e78c09fdb59fa35aaab61a93c1d95e199e69da1
c4c26d874dd6f63200e3a5b67c67bf1dac3b9933
cc7733e1dc3fff183276967d01c2c565c8feb69e
cf06a28e38c3746f8992dd78a50db808cce4e2e3

Pull refs to purge:

refs/pull/1/head 9046aecc6abea3544015e1e543f1e0306c6ad358
refs/pull/10/head 4af758a2fcc80d160618d29697c09d80b2876e92
refs/pull/11/head bd485a72c08d640264926526dfc90bbd187f9166
refs/pull/12/head f03d63e95800c3d735f0d65180850b81b7b34788
refs/pull/13/head 399f8ee8b656a306ce2e5658695567f4f9b5346f
refs/pull/14/head 50324e4c370e1e5d6a14b8082fcc8a344d97e430
refs/pull/2/head b043d83091fa756da3f66f340944e4ff54a3e11c
refs/pull/4/head 0dec8f784cccff9a417ebdb8c7734baa1b6549e0
refs/pull/5/head 0dec8f784cccff9a417ebdb8c7734baa1b6549e0
refs/pull/6/head 7e873caa9ca52c399cee5a242ca20ccc75cea356
refs/pull/8/head 9d6d8bfb30033222fad85bd895523a5aaba03ca3
refs/pull/9/head d0319fbba404287134b1884e30567ee100ad8015

Cow_Remote

Old SHAs that held the material:

1a2d8ae0207969eff3df9409d1ef476ace162cf4
32edb4250a5826fc7323600cd49261e88ed87ff8
526a691aafeb674112afddd271cdcb2f7abaecf0
58bf6e35a4afa61d76e633a96c5d15c75c91e458
8451a56f95bbb39e87656a8984908a3a679b9630
a10eab7193307b927c741d8db7dc61b5a1750b38
e10d3699ec36ad0252c6d1270be53ff4dc8d71cd

Pull refs to purge:

refs/pull/1/head 1ca58128c4d4d68aa9dffa602db896233abdf595
refs/pull/2/head a8de892c2537fb5d9050f5af7903bafad1d71975
refs/pull/3/head 810ec1b6d359ffcdb9c82204321e30b8d51d54e5
refs/pull/4/head 9439c237587fd17bcf3f0c0b07da66af9c0fcfa1

PSU

Old SHAs that held the material:

8b70526a9a1238ce85298f91243d49af14c0baa2
a5c82d755367fe0efaadf7f8fa58da69470816d1

Pull refs: none.

Boost_Gauge

Old SHAs that held the material:

b116547a9f8054b99d3d498832f113666ccb0f7e
e486bb5f83cd7aabd8cc67b970792beed0dbdbda
fb461a2d03a88ada6eefcb83e5732d42afc7fc43

Pull refs: none.

Remote_Universal

Old SHAs that held the material:

104075aad647b8d5baafbb46105dd64a2d462041
5f6c5194f8bdff779bbdfa0222afe185a7aa3f7c
a2e39e35eb9df5ba629e1af379fc74378551bfba
c0c1588261c9388b2b30aa9cc32e8b73386f88ec

Pull refs to purge:

refs/pull/1/head 3e865cc4cd148f1a226c13bb4df0bc44f86b9ff5

Universal_Tester_003

Old SHAs that held the material:

41abcab9f3550270b0c302d7244ba1936a9c34c3
bbaee81374481e320157566c6fdec677e8406b08
e2ca766c8208ac7765edde1cc188ec76063606c3

Pull refs: none.

safe-updi

Old SHAs that held the material:

a3841a00fda30d301afe343107f55b892a03cbc2
ecfb45b5045d2ac0b468f617092c97889856b6d5

Pull refs: none.

ops-scripts

Old SHAs that held the material:

bf678fe03f0660217a3dac6338c8af79c06cfc40

Pull refs: none.

git-ai-commit

Old SHAs that held the material:

06a6c0a953ab79e2ca4834cfbcef6e90e89d9571
619b32f5d06a1d5e5d1ce5d06453c4e9f4d45e05
dfc8bf14481dfd98f67add3284137cdb425bae33
f4f050cb5da0ed4f446e639b3bad8bf5304f323b
f97bf744c5e2e07bc743d3e4695b0f6f0cbcaf08

Pull refs: none.

Not included: EmbeddedEra/Universal_Tester (an open pull request; to be done after it is merged, we will send a follow-up) and EmbeddedEra/ExpressLRS (a third-party fork; its "hits" are random bytes inside a base64 image and a VS Code browse database, not the material).

Thank you. Angel Diaz, EmbeddedEra (adiaz@embeddedera.com)