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bsuvc on April 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git.io deprecation

This is not a developer-friendly decision.

Why can't they leave it working for existing URLs at least?

A quick search shows 704,000 code results containing git.io.

https://github.com/search?q=git.io&type=code

Edit: actually it is more than 704k, much more it seems.

pc86 on April 26, 2022 [–]

They mention security but don't expand on that, I wish they would have.

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