fix(telemetry): scrub existing rows, and stop --author= being eaten (#3925)

src/scribe/services/retrieval_telemetry.py

@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ _SECRET_PATTERNS: tuple[tuple[str, "re.Pattern[str]"], ...] = (
     # be anything.
     ("assigned", re.compile(
         r"(?i)\b([A-Za-z0-9_]*"
-        r"(?:token|secret|password|passwd|api[_-]?key|access[_-]?key|auth)"
+        # NO BARE "auth" HERE. It matched `--author=`, so a commit naming an
+        # address redacted the address — evidence eaten for a word that only
+        # LOOKS credential-shaped. `AUTH_TOKEN` is still caught, by `token`.
+        r"(?:token|secret|password|passwd|api[_-]?key|access[_-]?key)"
         r"[A-Za-z0-9_]*)"
         r"(\s*[:=]\s*[\"']?)"
         r"([^\s\"'&]{8,})"