Yeah this is so fucking stupid. Git is a distributed source control system, meaning every single person who pulled their internal code has a full copy of all of its history and all of its branches from the very first commit to the time of the pull.

You can't rewrite history with git. Rebasing is effectively not possible once the code had been delivered to the remote origin. Git can only change going forward, and it maintains a complete chronology of every single code change since the start.

Then, most companies have a continuous delivery workflow with deployment pipelines. It would literally be a single button press to fire off a deploy flow that redeploys all their code to a release prior to Musks offer and/or announcement.

TechCrunch urinalists are fucking useless retards who, despite reporting on tech, don't even understand the basic fundamentals of how source code is managed and how releases are deployed.

Any company large enough to matter will have a merge process that prevents a single employee from making unauthorized changes.

I think the idea is more that this goes beyond whatever they normally have in place:

Currently, a vice president must approve any changes.