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Re:Gitter – Chat, for GitHub by jbranchaud on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:56AM (#7271410)
It looks great, I'd love to try it, but I am not comfortable with how many permissions it requires on my Github account.
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Re:Gitter – Chat, for GitHub by mydigitalself on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:05AM (#7271481)
Hey,

We don't use those permissions, unfortunately as good as GitHub's API is, their scopes are very limited.

short answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178961-Why-d...

long answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...

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Re:Gitter – Chat, for GitHub by mynameisfiber on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:22AM (#7271608)
Maybe a good solution would be to request a less privileged token if the user doesn't want integration with private repos. Then, if they want to upgrade to integration with private repos they need to get a new oauth token with the relevant privileges.

I'd love to try this service out, but I also don't want to hand out oauth tokens that can read my ssh keys.

EDIT: Just read more comments and saw that my github ssh keys are completely public. I guess that makes sense since they are public keys!

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Re:Gitter – Chat, for GitHub by suprememoocow on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:04AM (#7271478)
Hi, this is Andrew from Gitter.

If you're not comfortable with the OAuth permissions Gitter requires, you're welcome to try it's sister product, Troupe https://trou.pe. It's got most of the same features, but with less Github integration.

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