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cmiles74 on Sept 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of fo...

I have been paying them a monthly fee for private repositories for as long as I can remember.

madeofpalk on Sept 6, 2025 [–]

Private repositories have been free for… 10 years?

cmiles74 on Sept 6, 2025 | [–]

I told you it had been a long time!

It looks like private repos started being free in 2019.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/new-year-new-...

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