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Niki Tonsky

Seriously, is there really no way to clone public Github repo without auth?

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Nundrum

@nikitonsky What repo? I just cloned one of my public repos without authenticating. I even jumped to a new UID just to be sure it wasn't accessing any stored config.

Niki Tonsky

@Nundrum my bad, I was using a non-existent URL and Github kept asking me for password

iliazeus

@nikitonsky hmm, a basic `git clone` over HTTPS works for me without issues.

I probably just don't understand exactly what do you mean by "without auth". Are you getting some form of password prompt or error when you try to clone?

chebra

@nikitonsky are you really really sure the repo is public? Works no problem here, cloned inside docker container isolated from any of my keys

Will Richardson

@nikitonsky usually when this happens it's because I've typo-d the URL and GH is being secure and asking for a password in case I have access to a private repo of that name, rather than failing immediately

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