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From: Henrique Soares <henriquegogo@gmail•com>
To: ynckz <yanckezcs@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git private branch Feature Suggestion
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:13:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aMIUJJTUegO3Nzcm@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGyVUB5QLV+HQMWT+0kDu1_H0uXHK7kTy35WqhXQaETZ5if5EQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:28:54AM +0300, ynckz wrote:
> I have a request for you. Could you please add private branches? This
> is a really useful thing.

Any branch created locally is private by default.
Just don't push it to the remote origin and nobody will have access to it.

> Imagine that you want to publish your project as open source, but you
> need to hide the .env file in a separate repository. It's easier to do
> everything in one repository, but in a different branch. Maybe there
> is another way, and I'm just dumb as fuck, but here's another example:

If you need to share the .env file to few people, but not to everyone,
then use a submodule.

-- Henrique

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-11  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-10 23:28 Git private branch Feature Suggestion ynckz
2025-09-10 23:54 ` rsbecker
2025-09-11  0:00 ` brian m. carlson
2025-09-11  0:13 ` Henrique Soares [this message]
2025-09-11  8:15 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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