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Completely useless action.

Not useless: They got to feel good about themselves and saddle people with hours of unnecessary work as the price of their own edification.

Power, remember, is the ability to get people to do what you want them to, and it is felt when it is exercised. They exercised power so they could smell the sweet aroma of their own farts.

Or it is completely relevant for them, as companies with the type of reach they have will make want to me statements like this. People will just deal with it after some initial complaints, but this change will reach a significant amount of projects. This small workflow change will affect everyone who even has casual contact with Github, since there are just so many projects on it.

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