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Git.io shutdown #24621

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Hi there 👋 ! As of April 27, 2022, GitHub will now be preserving git.io links in their read-only formats, these links will not be deprecated. Though we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious, or 404 links, we have decided to archive the current git.io links in a new read-only service that will allow us to serve redirects for those links longer term. GitHub support will not be able to update or edit redirection records served by the git.io archive service.

What began as an experiment in 2011, git.io was only lightly documented and thus not heavily used, however, git.io has increasingly been used for malicious purposes. Since January 2022, new link creation on git.io ha…

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