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> It'd be great if Github could allow read/write permission grants on a per-repo basis. Maybe they do already!

They totally do. Shopify's Github integration works this way, and it is fantastic!

These are known as GitHub apps and were designed to address this problem. https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/getting-started-w...

Thanks and I'm not surprised, it's a pretty intuitive feature! So really the only thing Heroku gets from these all-inclusive tokens is something to drive their type-a-head input on their integration page, right? Totally not worth it, I'd rather use Github's prompt.

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