Not everything in a project should be committed. API keys, passwords, and some generated files should stay off GitHub.

Git has a mechanism for this: a file called .gitignore. Any path listed inside it will be ignored, Git won't track it, and it won̈́'t show up when you run git status.

Inside gitignore/ there's a secrets/ folder containing a fake API key. Create a .gitignore file in the gitignore/ folder that tells Git to ignore it, then commit and push.

You can read documentation here if you want, or search on the internet, if you're not sure what to do.