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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by bluGill on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:43PM (#48182844)
Why should I trust you to give me my deposit back?
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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:00PM (#48183103)
Because the cost in reputation is not high enough to justify a large scale scam operation?

If you don't trust the maintainer, you can always fork a repo and let them merge on their own.

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