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Uh, no. Git commit messages which are stored in public repositories such as Github are public, because public repositories are public. Git commit messages which are stored in private repositories are private. Git commit messages have the same access restrictions as the repositories which contain them. Duh?

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Absolutely. I should probably have clarified that.

I do think there's a disconnect between which pieces of data people think are public vs. what is actually public. My git commit email was one of them. That's what I'm trying to illustrate in my post.

Gotcha. Fair enough. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "duh".

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "duh"

That's almost always correct :)

I don't know, 'duh' is a good term for that feeling when you realize something you should have realized a long time ago.

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