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 Anonymous Github
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-Similarly to paper anonymization, in a double-blind review process, the open-science data or code that is in the online appendix must be anonymized. The authors must
+Anonymous Github is a system to anonymize Github repositories before referring to them in a double-blind paper submission.
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+Indeed, in a double-blind review process, the open-science data or code that is in the online appendix must be anonymized, similarly to paper anonymization. The authors must
 
 * anonymize URLs: the name of the institution/department/group/authors should not appear in the  URLs of the open-science appendix
 * anonymize the appendix content itself