Hide Repository Activity View [Enhancement]

[jurakovic]

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Since discussion Repository Activity View #53140 is closed I don't know where else to ask/suggest this, so forgive me for my ignorance.

There are repository settings by which we can show or hide some features.

But there is no option to hide Repository Activity View.

As in above example, can we get setting to show or hide Activity View?

Edit, additional clarification:
IMHO this Repository Activity View poses security and privacy risk because it was introduced without possibility to hide it, and it shows deleted commits, branches, tags etc. If something is deleted, it is deleted for some valid reason and it should't be publicly visible if repository owner does not want it.

Thanks

[ViniciusMarins]

I guess it is not possible to hide only activity view in your repos, the only way is making your profile private.

Differences between private and public profiles
When your profile is private, the following content is hidden from your profile page:

Achievements and highlights.
Activity overview and activity feed.
Contribution graph.
Follower and following counts.
Follow and Sponsor buttons.
Organization memberships.
Stars, projects, packages, and sponsoring tabs.
Your pronouns.

You can make your account private easily going into your settings > public profile > scroll down until this:

Hope that can help you!

[jurakovic]

That settings affect only profile view, but not repository settings.

Some additional clarification:
IMHO this Repository Activity View poses security and privacy risk because it was introduced without possibility to hide it, and it shows deleted commits, branches, tags etc. If something is deleted, it is deleted for some valid reason and it should't be publicly visible if repository owner does not want it.

[raufzer]

I hope adding that feature, keeping your profile private is not a solution.
I have seen that GitHub users have been demanding this feature for over 3 years, but there has been no progress or help.

[daneski13]

100% agree with this. Many people expressed the same concerns in the original thread and as far as I can tell these went unanswered. Having control over this feature is a must, especially when developing in a private repo and later making it public. The most egregious is that it allows the public to view the diffs.

There should at minimum be force pushes/delete diffs only viewable to the owner and/or the ability to turn this feature off completely, if not more granular control similar to the Actions workflow runs view where you can delete individual runs.

Massive security and privacy risks, especially for people and orgs that are not fully aware of this "feature."

[RelevantContent]

I fully agree. It is really strange that it is considered a feature at all when even repo owner can't disable or limit it to certain people. Github should give option in global and repo settings to disable/limit globally or per repo respectively. I think this is a very valid demand from all github users. Due to this, I am considering shifting all repos to some other platform.

[tirthpatell]

We really do need a way to either delete/hide old activity and maybe even disable it or limit to maintainers. @thispaul
It's huge security issue otherwise if someone mistakenly pushed something.

[espwangning]

+1 Deeply in need of this

[AaronMoroney]

+1 need this

[ameaninglessname]

Repository Activity View is a critical defect for private members of an orgnization.