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by pineconewarrior 1519 days ago
> 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!

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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.