> Well, that goes without saying. But I don't think that security argument is a very poor one compared to the huge benefit of having the history locally to inspect.

If you go further upthread you'll find that I said "a valid tradeoff, but one I'd keep in mind"

> We've had instances where secrets were committed to local repositories by accident.

That's laudable, but countless examples show that not everyone is that diligent. I'd love if I could lock down some parts of some repos so that they're only accessible by people that I have an elevated level of trust in. (and where I can enforce a certain security level on the laptop).