Oh... You're holding my repo up for ransom? Hah you're funny. I'm not paying money for the garbage I haven't touched since...
Also
git push -f

I feel there's more of a story here that needs to be told...

@AlmondSauce Apparently it was developers who kept their plaintext passwords in plain sight. Experienced that sloppiness first-hand, I had shell access to a developer's server just by searching for some json file I think on GitHub (something from an IDE that I guess enables pushing without further authorization). And removed everything in their home directory. It was one of those dreaded "knows nothing, teach everything" teachers apparently.
https://zdnet.com/article/...

@Condor Thanks, had no idea!