The write-up
Inspiration
In the last few years we have seen many developers of Bitcoin/privacy software being targeted. I want to build a tool that helps developers to contribute anonymously.
What it does
One of the crucial pieces of personally identifiable information about a person is their location. This tool will mask one aspect of that information (their TZ) from a developers contributions to a public repository.
Challenges we ran into
- Figuring out Git internals
- Automating an otherwise manual workflow
What we learned
Even in such a simple case, the early implementation had several bugs that was fixed later. Lesson learned: privacy is hard!
What's next for git-futz
- Support signed commits
- Proper windows support by porting to Powershell
- Explore other workflows that could be supported