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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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