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		striking on Feb 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: GitHub Notifier Yeah, I'm curious why it needs write access or personal info beyond your email.

jzelinskie on Feb 6, 2016 | [–]

I don't know if things have improved, but the last time I worked with GitHub's API, they only had one scope for working with repositories and it pretty much gives you the ability to do everything.

nsgi on Feb 6, 2016 | [–]

Presumably it gives you notifications from private repos.

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