A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.
Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.
It would be possible to create a dummy “salt” commit and rebase every the branch onto it. The content would effectively be the same, but each commit hash would differ.
@0x0 Why do you think they only check the commit hash?
I don’t? You can apply a similar technique to bust file hashes. Add a new comment to each source file, or whatever.
My point is that automated methods to detect unwanted content will only get GitHub so far. It will have to be fuzzy, and that means it’s an arms race between detectors and obfuscators.