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Comment by jeremyjh

3 hours ago

The crawlers are not AI. The crawlers are deterministic. They are collecting data to train AIs.

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jonhohle  3 hours ago

But gitweb is probably the second most used method of hosting a git repo and easily recognizable through heuristics. If it’s gitweb, fallback to git access and save everyone, including the crawler, time and resources.

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