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starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 5 months agoIf you only ever keep your repository private, then you are fine. Full stop.
If you ever fork the repo and make a “INTERNAL” private fork but move the main project public then anything you commit to the private fork will be discoverable through the public project.
Basically you should assume if you make a repo public then the repo and all of its forks will be public-- even if the forks are “private” the commit data can be found through the main repo.