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by jrochkind1 1521 days ago
Do you think that still sounds much more confusing than it needs to be?

I don't totally understand why they offer these two mechanisms of integration -- or why the granularity of access would need to be different between them. Why not let "OAuth apps" be authorized per-repo -- if you are going to have "OAuth apps" existing as a thing still? And they don't seem to be deprecated in favor of newer "github apps", right?
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whelton 1520 days ago
Yeah agreed its pretty confusing and took me some time to reconcile!

I imagine for legacy support or business reasons they maintain the OAuth API, but I too wish they add granular repo support to the OAuth API and existing tokens were migrated to an all repos scope, while new tokens were encouraged to be per repo scoping.

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