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		oefrha on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API What are you talking about? Personal access tokens are scoped.

ithkuil on April 13, 2020 [–]

I had the same reaction then I re-read the comment and realized it was correct.

The granularity of Personal access tokens scopes is focused on what kind of actions you can perform on which kind of objects, but you cannot limit it to one single repository or to one single organization you belong.

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