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.
Git objects are deduplicated, the storage cost doesn’t increase.
What if they run a rebase script that changes the timestamp or sth on every commit, before the reupload?