How secure would github hosting be for private repositories?

Question

I have read this thread but I'm wondering how secure such a solution would be? I know that github offers ssh/ssl support and am familiar but could someone give me a breakdown of what sort of internal security they would use to make sure my committed conf/credential files don't get hacked?

EDIT: I've read http://help.github.com/security/ but I would like an answer from someone who has worked with multiple repository hosts and has real-world experience with this.

Answer 1

How long is a piece of string?

This is a pretty hard question to answer.

Looking at their security page they seem to have pretty much everything covered, assuming they actually do all that stuff.

You could argue that putting your code on github is more secure than having it stored on an in-house server, many companies would not have as good a setup or security policies as github describe. Does yours?