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lifistoday at 8:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

You can just fork the repository, give it access to the fork and then merge what you want


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amlutotoday at 1:59 PM

This is a piece of cake using GitHub’s excellent permission system.

(I’m joking, of course. Service accounts are nowhere to be seen. OAuth can’t even scope to an organization, let alone a repository. And this whole github.dev thing illustrates that you don’t even need to explicitly grant permission to issue broadly scoped tokens.)

Also, forking is pretty heavyweight just to launch something that, for all anyone knows before starting actual work, is being used as a read only viewer.