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I've changed the secret key that I am using in production. I wanted the settings.py to be there so it works out of the box if anyone forks it.


Remember to always gitignore your list.txt file folks!


Good catch, haha.



That of course doesn't delete it from the history :-)

You can do that via https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data/, but once it's been cloned, the file is of course out of the toothpaste tube so to speak :-)


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