I found an old project on which I hadn't version controlled, so I decided to manually commit progress on a past date. Only problem GitHub calendar wouldn't show it.

I emailed them and because it was private repo I added them as contributor. Then I got this reply.

@irene True, Just the way they phrased it seem like they have a habit of snooping around.

That's like trying to send a friend request to Facebook staff when someone commented something racist on your post, because only your friends can see it...

@irene maybe I'm just paranoid a bit right now because I just realised Private repos aren't completely private in first place.

@thekaleidoscope dude, if you want completely private, host your own Git server (e.g. Gitlab).

@piehole now that I think about it, it would similar case for all git hosting including gitlab and bitbucket

@thekaleidoscope And the same applies to hosting your own git server instance in the cloud... E.g. Amazon could give access to the government if they had a warrant or something. Self-hosted, fully encrypted, that'd be probably the only safe solution, where the vector of an attack is reduced to vulnerabilities in the git server, or the underlying OS/encryption...

I'm probably going to delete this rant considering it was pretty stupid of me to assume otherwise would have been true.

@piehole absolutely, but tradeoff between cost and privacy is way too much and unless it's something worth that price, it wouldn't be practical.

@irene agreed, it was poor assumption on my part.

Wtb encrypted repos

@thekaleidoscope Surprise surprise!

Lol the moment you realise GitHub owns GitHub

@irene 4chan/g

I get most of my shtick from there, had 16GB of dankness until I was mugged and my phone taken away :(

@JKyll Doesn't Microsoft own GitHub now?

@janDo yep...oh shieet