Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.
It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.
I’m 100% sure this is damage control on their part, they refused to acknowledge the incident and are looking for their way out.
What users found in this thread is
gitbuilds (gix version x TLS lib x TLS lib version in place)If these are LLM scrapper mitigation steps then apparently fighting LLM scrappers is 7D chess game or something 🤷