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Github confirms random 401 responses on unauthenticated git clones are no mistake (eviltoast.org)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.

It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This seems reasonable. Cry all you want but if even smaller sites are getting overwhelmed with bots imagine what it's like for GitHub.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure scrappers are so kind to git clone instead of rendering every single file in HTML 🤔

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    My obscure site for my small business is getting hundreds of thousands of hits a month and its practically all bots.

    When Cloudflare says bots are most traffic nowadays, I believe it based off what I see.

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