I’ve never liked those “type this string to confirm” dialogs. It doesn’t actually tell me what I’m confirming aside from the name of it (and names are easy to get muddled up if you’re tired or rushing through something). What’s more, dialogs like that encourage people to copy/paste those often long strings, which completely sidesteps the diligence they’re trying to encourage.

Whether you agree with the tone of that article or not, the UI suggestions made are sensible. Showing the contents of the repo you’re about to change is a lot more useful than asking someone to type the name of it.