Wondering why this asks for github permissions?

[zola-25]

I'm sure there's nothing malicious intended.

If it's something to do with version tracking (my git knowledge ends well before git mv ), can't that be done in the local repo?

Kind Regards

[axelrindle]

This is used for update checking which relies on the Github API. By signing in with Github the API rate limit is greatly increased. See the code here.

I was thinking of whether this is actually required for a one-time call on startup.

Thanks for asking!

[zola-25]

Ah cool, yeh makes sense, like others my VS code install ends up with so many extensions it's hard to keep track of what's doing what.

Thanks for clarifying

👍

[ghost]

@axelrindle On Windows, it is showing "Sign in with GitHub to use Duplicate files".