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Ask HN: Best way to prepare a codebase for open-source?
18 by Eikon | 18 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, How would you approach the process to opensource a proprietary codebase, especially regarding things such as ensuring that no secrets are sitting somewhere in the history. I'd be tempted to publish without history but I feel like a lot of important context will be lost.