need ability to customize which repos show public activity and which do not, instead of account-wide private setting

[sam0x17]

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Right now it's a pretty terrible user experience if you want to hide public activity for certain repos and not others, you basically are forced to either make everything public or everything private. I'm envisioning a multi-select under public activity settings, so instead of just the "make your activity private" checkbox, there is also a "hide activity from these repos:" multi-select that becomes available if the private checkbox is not checked.

Why might someone want to hide activity from specific repos?

There are plenty of reasons. In my case when my github profile is public, since I have some past contributions in some sensitive department of defense repos, I get a lot of inbound and spam and whale-phishing attempts from state-sponsored terrorist types and that sort of thing, so I'd like to hide those contributions, but that doesn't mean I want to hide my entire github profile!!

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[mecodeatlas]

Hey @sam0x17! Thanks for reaching out :)

While it may not be exactly what you’re looking for, you do have the option to hide your contribution activity without making your entire profile private.

To prevent this from happening in the future, you can set your commit email to private or use a no-reply email, which will override your global configuration and ensure your contributions aren’t publicly linked to your profile.

As for removing past contributions, unless you own the repository, there isn’t a way to delete them. Hope this answer can help you somehow!

[sam0x17]

Yeah I specifically want to show off my contribution activity, but hide it for some public repos