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ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

262 points · 14 comments · cdnsteve

  1. Aldipower · · focus · HN ↗
    That the article cannot distinguish between the git history 'git log' and the git repository, which is meant here, tells a lot.

    Claude Fable uploads my git history (git log) every day to the Anthropic servers!

    1. bbor · · focus · HN ↗
      This is bad-faith AI slop rephrasing the original article, but regardless: the extent of the issue is far, far, far beyond the metadata you're discussing. No one has 300MB of commit messages.
      1. progval · · focus · HN ↗
        > No one has 300MB of commit messages.

        Commit messages in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin... sum to 900MB.

        Also, this commit message alone: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;old-game&#x2F;sb-b&#x2F;nanobox.io&#x2F;nanobox-pkgsrc-lite&#x2F;-&#x2F;commit&#x2F;857d286123acf87ae4a08528a3eef4ce2fbf8db2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;old-game&#x2F;sb-b&#x2F;nanobox.io&#x2F;nanobox-pkgsrc-l... weighs 100.5MB (they squashed years of history as a single commit and piped &quot;git log&quot; to the commit message).

        1. bbor · · focus · HN ↗
          lol okay you got me. Linux itself might!
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