Spammed with github credential requests

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Bug description:
I’m not trying to push to git (or using any git commands for that matter) and once a minute or so, the box asking me to allow my git credentials through pops up. I’ve denied all of them, but I know replit had a leak or breach or something with git creds before, should I be worried? Also it’s very annoying

Expected vs Current Behavior:
Expected: No popups
Current: Often, unsolicited popups

Steps to reproduce:
Open a repl editor

Browser/OS/Device: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Replit Profile: https://replit.com/@CatR3kd

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Hi @CatR3kd , welcome to the forums!
Do you have Git initialized in your repl? You can look at your Files sidebar and check if you have a .git folder. Delete the folder to remove Git.

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I had this the other day too, I think I ended up running a kill loop in Shell to kill git constantly (so no auth request)

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Yes, but I want to use github so that’s not really an option

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No, I meant disable Git for that repl. You can always go to the Git tab to turn it on.

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Yeah, it just seems annoying to do that, and I don’t want to pass my credentials (even if I initiate it) since there seems to be a chance of a malicious third party

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what does that loop look like?

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Not much really:

while true;do pkill git;sleep 1;done
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