GitHub API: using ‘repo’ scope, but still can’t see private repos

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From testing:

  • GETing /users/someusername/repos doesn’t show private repos (even if it’s the user whose oauth access token you’re using).

  • GETing /user/repos show private repos.

This isn’t documented in the GitHub API docs at present, I just found out via testing.

Thanks to @ivanzuzak for suggesting to look at the endpoint.

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