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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by chimeracoder on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:53AM (#13651349)
Why would you ever want to share a valid Github API key publicly?
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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by Klathmon on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:05AM (#13651409)
It's been a while, but IIRC it was a key with no permissions used on a CI server to get around github's API usage limits.

It probably wasn't the best idea, but it was the only "secret" needed in the whole project and I didn't want to maintain a way of managing secrets in a public project for a pointless key.

In the end I did just that, and looking back it was the better choice, but at the time it was annoying.

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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by Cyphase on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:46AM (#13651914)
"... used ... to get around github's API usage limits."

I wonder why they'd want to invalidate that. :)

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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by remmelt on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:00AM (#13651384)
Continuous development, e.g. Jenkins? (Please don’t do this)
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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by jayshua on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:35AM (#13651850)
Why not?
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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by arjie on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:00AM (#13652420)
Out of curiosity, why not a deploy user? https://developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/
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