[johncoatesdev]

I can't find any reason why I would have made it public. I made the repo in 2014 for internal use and don't like to share projects like that. I'm pretty careful when releasing any code publicly. It's some code that other private projects depend on. I searched for any references in public code and there are none, so there should have been no reason to make it public.

Interestingly my public code with thousands of stars isn't in "The Stack".

[bredren]

This shouldn't be something where we're relying on recollection.

Presumably github repo privacy state has an audit trail. This would allow GH to prove / disprove claims on any given repo easily. I hope a rep steps in to do so.

[johncoatesdev]

Yeah I agree. Tried https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771541 but there's nothing related to this repo. Does GitHub send an email out when you make something public? I don't have any emails related to this repo.

[simonw]

I just upgraded the tool at https://observablehq.com/@simonw/github-public-repo-history to use lowercase comparisons (previously it was case sensitive) so it's worth having another look.