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Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by adolfoabegg on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:52PM (#8428312)
Hey, this looks cool but I don't want grant write permission to my public and private repos just to get a daily status update. Is it possible to ask for read-only perm?
Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by rubyn00bie on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:01PM (#8428374)
+1 to this sentiment... I want to use this service, but it requires I give it way too many permissions. I actually couldn't click "authorize" when I looked at how much access it wanted (probably an oversight, and nothing nefarious).

Hopefully it gets fixed, because this is sweet. I'd happily pay $20-$50 a month for my team to get an overview of github activity for our organization.

Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by bbrunner on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:36PM (#8428987)
Yea I wish it was possible. The read/write repo permission is the only way I've found to be able to list all of the private repositories in an org. There's a few other threads in these comments that cover the specifics a little bit better but the gist is that GitHub has pretty coarse grained permissions unfortunately.
Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by aembleton on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:02PM (#8429133)
Looks like this has been fixed. I've just signed up and it was only asking for read permissions.
Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by mackwerk on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:35AM (#8469828)
If I revoke the application from github and sign up again I am asked for write permissions to private repos still :(
Re:Show HN: Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams by peetle on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:13PM (#8428459)
+1 - I will never use this with these kinds of permissions.