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GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, recently released an announcement to “deprecate Git.io”. In the announcement, GitHub announced that it will shut down its abbreviated location service on April 29, 2022, i.e. all links on Git.io will stop redirecting. Meanwhile, GitHub is calling on developers to ‘immediately update any existing links that use the git.io URL service’.
The GitHub blog states that Git.io is a URL shortening website created by GitHub in 2011 to redirect to GitHub domains such as github.com and github.io. What started out as an experiment was only rarely documented and not widely adopted.
In January 2022, GitHub announced that git.io became read-only. As notified in January, plans to deprecate the service were shared. Due to the security of redirected links using the current git.io infrastructure, the team was very cautious and decided to speed up the timeline. GitHub will remove all existing link redirects from git.io on April 29, 2022.
Developers should now use other services that offer numerous URL shorteners that are more powerful than the git.io service provided.
Subsequently, the GitHub blog updated the instructions based on the feedback:
“While the git.io url redirection service is read-only and usage of the service is restricted, the team has received feedback from developers and academic researchers who have published git.io links in print documentation and research papers. In order to Keeping these historical documents intact, the team decided to archive current git.io links in a new read-only service, which will allow for longer-term redirect services for these links.
As the analysis continues, the team may remove individual links to spam, malicious, or 404 links. The team’s goal is not to break links that rely on legitimate use, especially in academia, while keeping developers safe on GitHub.
That said, the team still encourages users to use one of the many URL shortening services that are more powerful than the git.io service. GitHub Support will not be able to update or edit redirect records provided by the git.io archive service. “
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