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I don't like that it wants to access your private repo info and that I can't find, with a quick Google, what it will be able to do / read from my repo's.

> Update your public and private repository info

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Sorry about that. We had to request private access since we figured not everyone with an active account would necessarily have public repos. Going to change it to only look at public for now.

Why do you need the rights to update any of those?

Well, unfortunately, we don't. But GitHub's API is very terse. We can either read/write to private repos, or we can't access private repos at all.

We've updated the algorithms to not be as concerned to the number of private repos.

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