Replace private="true" with visibility="private" in .soy files private="true" has never done very much unfortunately. There is an alternate way to mark templates as private by setting 'visibility="private"' which does get enforced both by the soy compiler and by custom per-language strategies in the various backends. Change-Id: Ie85ab67742ad429ab4cff954868b5a17aa14a07d

diff --git a/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/ObjectDetail.soy b/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/ObjectDetail.soy
index a740370..38b5735 100644
--- a/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/ObjectDetail.soy
+++ b/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/ObjectDetail.soy

@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
  * @param name name.
  * @param email email.
  */
-{template .person_ private="true"}
+{template .person_ visibility="private"}
 {$name}{if $email} &lt;{$email}&gt;{/if}
 {/template}
 
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
  *     text: raw text of the part.
  *     url: optional URL that should be linked to from the part.
  */
-{template .message_ private="true"}
+{template .message_ visibility="private"}
 <pre class="{$className}">
   {foreach $part in $message}
     {if $part.url}<a href="{$part.url}">{$part.text}</a>{else}{$part.text}{/if}

diff --git a/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/RepositoryIndex.soy b/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/RepositoryIndex.soy
index 3ab7d5b..78f5b79 100644
--- a/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/RepositoryIndex.soy
+++ b/gitiles-servlet/src/main/resources/com/google/gitiles/templates/RepositoryIndex.soy

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
  * @param? branches list of branch objects with url and name keys.
  * @param? moreBranchesUrl URL to show more branches, if necessary.
  */
-{template .branches_ private="true"}
+{template .branches_ visibility="private"}
   {if length($branches)}
     {call .refList}
       {param type: 'Branches' /}
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
  * @param? tags list of branch objects with url and name keys.
  * @param? moreTagsUrl URL to show more tags, if necessary.
  */
-{template .tags_ private="true"}
+{template .tags_ visibility="private"}
   {if length($tags)}
     {call .refList}
       {param type: 'Tags' /}