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		mayama on Sept 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source I tried looking at commit history for few repos and was prompted login to view them. Not sure what logic in deciding you had to login to view commit history. Especially when you can clone the repo to local and view it there.

kohtatsu on Sept 11, 2020 | [–]

Growth hacking, if you can consider that logic.

ysleepy on Sept 11, 2020 | [–]

its a rather expensive operation, so restricting for anonymous users is a sensible trade off.

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