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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
(cointelegraph.com)
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Sure, but nothing I said conflicts with that.
I'm talking about a situation where someone has a private repository, and then one day down the line decide that they want to transition it to a public repository.
You're not creating the repository with the intention that it is public, nor intending to mix information that should be public and private together.
If you don't have a policy of never committing private keys to any repo, you should choose a policy of never transitioning any private repo to public. IMO if you don't choose strict and effective policy with low cognitive burden, you will burn yourself sooner or later.