> I don't owe it to anyone to show how messy my kitchen is.

There was once a time when sharing code had a social obligation.

This attitude you have isn't in the same spirit. GitHub (or any forge) was never meant to be a garbage dumping ground for whatever idea you cooked up at 3AM.

Never happened. My projects start with me goofing around and playing with things, accidentally committing my editor config or a logfile, etc. The first commit on my public release is a snapshot of the first working version, minus all the dumb typos and malcommits I made along the way.

I don’t owe it to anyone to show how the sausage was made. Once it’s out the door and public, things are different. But before then? No one was the moral right to see all my mistakes leading up to the first release.

It requires self-discipline to stay organized. A vcs is just a tool. I'm never organized, my brain just works that way. Whatever the tool, I'll create a mess with it. So as long as the project structure and its code is all good I can't care about anything else.

Explain why you think making a single commit is related to any source code sharing obligation? You completely failed to establish why making a single commit is indicative of it being garbage. Your statements are a series of non-sequiturs so far and thus I can't take you seriously.

that world never existed