Corey Quinn discovers his own mistake

If I do a `git pull` on @elastic's Logstash repository, it pulls down 113.16 MiB from GitHub. Fully 66MB of that is a binary WAR file erroneously committed to git in 2013. That's right. Over *half* of every transfer of that wildly popular repo is a file some moron messed up. Who was that moron? Me. It was entirely me. I just discovered this in a chat with @jordansissel. Oopsie. commit e178383d27422d90718ee7436619fb36731fdd82 Author: Corey Quinn <corey@sequestered.net> Date: Sun Feb 24 22:01:42 2013 -0500 Remove large binary because I'm foolish commit fd93322c903a49febe8ad454c9e03a7e86327389 Author: Corey Quinn <cquinn@soap.epicquinn.net> Date: Sun Feb 24 21:49:32 2013 -0800 Initial packaging work for deb building

Corey Quinn posts about a huge binary file unnecessarily included in the Logstash repository, then reveals that he was the person who committed it. The punchline is the self-own: he criticizes an anonymous fool before discovering that the fool was himself, with the old Git commits serving as proof. EN: Corey Quinn posts about a huge binary file unnecessarily included in the Logstash repository, then reveals that he was the person who committed it. The punchline is the self-own: he criticizes an anonymous fool before discovering that the fool was himself, with the old Git commits serving as proof.

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