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Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier by striking on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:05PM (#11044216)
Yeah, I'm curious why it needs write access or personal info beyond your email.
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Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier by jzelinskie on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:30PM (#11046050)
I don't know if things have improved, but the last time I worked with GitHub's API, they only had one scope for working with repositories and it pretty much gives you the ability to do everything.
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Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier by nsgi on Saturday February 06, 2016 @01:58PM (#11049150)
Presumably it gives you notifications from private repos.
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