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Great extension, except in private repos, every time I click on a file (from github proper) the extension animates outward while telling me that it doesn't work with private repos. Extremely annoying and resulted in uninstall :(

edit: i'm not willing to give extension access to private repos, that would defeat the point of being private

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Private repos require your authorization. I guess you'll be more frustrated if I could code up something to access your private repos without your authorization, won't you? The instructions to create and set the token is here: https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree#github-api-rate-limit.

Hi there, a better idea is to not animate and to just show a link at the bottom corner. So I get the goodies when everything works, and if it doesn't work, it stays out of my way.

Thanks, that is a good idea. I'll think more about it. The UI certainly needs work to address this annoying behavior.

So the extension page mentions requiring a github token to work with private repositories, but I'm not sure where you'd configure the extension.

It will pop out automatically and presents a text-box for you to enter the token. It will also shows you a link to create a token in GitHub.

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