Linux28: Git Archaeology II — Digging History

The current README claims there is nothing here — but git history remembers everything that was ever committed

Objective

Learner can inspect commit logs, view diffs of previous commits, and recover leaked credentials from version history

Mission

A secret token was accidentally pushed into soc-tools and later deleted in an attempt to hide the leak.

Navigate to ~/workspace/soc-tools and review the full commit logs with patches (git log -p). Locate the commit where credentials-backup.txt was added, extract the value of legacy_api_key, and submit it below.

Commands you may need to solve this lab

git loggit log -pgit show

Questions

1. Which command displays the commit history of a repository?

2. Which command shows the exact patch and changes introduced by a specific commit?

3. Why does deleting a file in a new commit fail to remove it from git history?

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