CODEWITHSUNDEEP
github
uber
uber

Reputation: 5083

How to give someone access to a private repository while still allowing me to be the single owner?

I have project on Github of which I need help with. It started out as a personal project and now evolved to me incorporating a company and hiring someone. How can I give this person access so that they cannot delete anything and only I will be allowed to accept their code changes or not?

This is a personal github account and the repository is private.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1871

Answers (1)

GoodDeeds
GoodDeeds

Reputation: 8507

Since the account is a personal account, you will be the owner unless you explicitly transfer ownership. Anyone you give access to will be a collaborator. They cannot access repository settings, add or remove collaborators, or delete the repository, for instance.

However, GitHub does not provide fine-grained permission controls for collaborators of repositories from personal accounts. You cannot prevent them from having write access. This help page provides a list of things collaborators can do in the repository.

You can (partly) achieve what you want by protecting your master branch and requiring reviews for pull requests.

For more fine-grained access control, you could create an organization account and transfer the repository there, and keep yourself as the sole user with admin permissions. You can then give your collaborator only read permissions.

Upvotes: 2

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