I've been invited to a repo by an organization for a take home interview project. I'm concerned that if I accept it that it will show up on the github feed and my coworkers are able to see it. Especially when I make commits and pull request. Is this true? Can it be prevented?
It will show up on your feed. (Kinda) It will say x contributions in private repositories. You can see an example below from my account:
People that do have view access or higher will see the repository and what you did, PRs, issues, etc.
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I'm been working in a team of four. I'm in the collaborator list. I'm able to commit, push, send pull requests and merge in our repo. My teammates can see my changes, but everyone is on the contributor list except me.
I double checked my email address, make sure the email I used in my local setting is the same with my default email in the github account.
We have changed the owner of the project once, and I'm still using the old url. Is this the reason for that?
I found the github has a complex rule for you be considered as a contributor. Here's the doc of it.
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile
You have to commit to the main/default branch or make pull requests. To commit into other branches won't count.
Also, to use the old project url is definately one problem. In the project insight, everyone's profile is linked with their username. While mine is only a username with no user icon.
I think I just accidentally hit into one of the corner cases, but I'm still very confused of this design pattern.
We are setting up a open source project which we would like to allow freelancers to develop alongside us without damaging anything.
In general can the collaborators make changes to repositories without admins being able to check the changes over before code is merged into master.
What is the best method to use to prevent the repository from user damage whilst working with a large number of public freelance developers / users?
What you can do is you can give them read-only permission. They can fork to their own account and start working on that code. Then after finishing a feature they can create a pull request to merge it back to the main repo.
For a Personal account on Github, there are two types of 'roles' - Owner and Collaborator.
For a full list of who can do what - see here:
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-personal-account-settings/permission-levels-for-a-personal-account-repository
To answer your question - "No - A collaborator cannot delete a repository"
Can someone tell me like I'm 5 on subscribing to a git repository on slack? My google-fu is not giving any answers.
I have five repositories, none of which I'm the owner on. I want a slack notification when there's a push to these repositories. If I type /github help I get a list of commands and it says I should be able to subscribe by "/github subscribe owner/repository"
I'm not sure which people on my team "own" the repository and I'm not sure where this information is in github.
I read somewhere I could just do /github subscribe and paste the full https link, but I get this back
If I click Install button I get a page that says "Where do you want to install slack?"
If I select configure under my github main repo, I get this:
If I start adding repositories, everyone on my team gets an email notification to add slack to github. I don't get an email notification. Nothing happens at all. Then everyone in the company pings me asking me why they're getting slack/github notifications. To prevent further humiliation, I just stopped trying to add the repo. I'd still like to add it though.
I should be able to subscribe by "/github subscribe owner/repository"
I'm not sure which people on my team "own" the repository and I'm not sure where this information is in github.
I just wanted to help with this part, since I recently had to figure that same thing out. The owner is the organization that your repositories belong to. So, lets say you have a repo named "RepoOne". If you click into that repo, the URL in the address bar should show: "https://github.com/[owner]/RepoOne"
So, you should be able to copy the owner and repo name from your URL and use it in the command as follows:
/github subscribe [owner]/RepoOne
Keep in mind, that only subscribes you to the isssues, pulls, commits, releases, and deployments. I like to include the reviews and comments too, so I go with:
/github subscribe [owner]/RepoOne reviews comments
Recently I've started a new open source android project on GitHub (Open Weather App). One person forked the repository and made some changes, then he created a pull request and I accepted it by pressing this green button:
Everything worked just fine, the pull request was merged into master. However, the problem is that he did not appear in the contributors list. It still does say 1 contributor, which is me:
What could be the reason for him not to appear on the list, and how can I solve this issue?
I feel responsibility for him. I even added him to collaborators list, yet he still does not appear as a contributor.
At Contributions that are counted are 3 points listed which must be met by a contributor:
I checked your repo and the pull request and it seems like this point is not met:
The email address used for the commits is associated with your GitHub
account
Are you sure it is not described here?
Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
When I create a new repository in a Github organization, all the organization owners get automatically subscribed to that repository's notification.
I'm going to be making a lot of repositories for archival purposes. I would like to turn auto subscribe off, not just for me but for everyone in the org. I would also like to avoid sending out the initial "you have been automatically subscribed" email. I can't find anything in the Github API or organization settings to do this.
Hey there, we're just writing to let you know that you've been automatically subscribed to a repository on GitHub.
gitpan-test/Acme-LookOfDisapproval created by gitpan-test-account
Read-only release history for Acme-LookOfDisapproval
https://github.com/gitpan-test/Acme-LookOfDisapproval
You'll receive notifications for all issues, pull requests, and comments that happen inside the repository. If you would like to stop watching this repository, you can manage your settings here:
https://github.com/gitpan-test/Acme-LookOfDisapproval/subscription
You can unwatch this repository immediately by clicking here:
https://github.com/gitpan-test/Acme-LookOfDisapproval/unsubscribe_via_email/blahblahblah
You were automatically subscribed because you've been given push access to the repository.
Thanks!
Go to your profile settings
Click Notification Center
Uncheck Automatically watch repositories
I love gifs so I created one to show how to deal with this issue.
Go to your Settings page on GitHub
Then click at Notifications menu
Just uncheck Automatically watch repositories and you're done.
Peace! ✌️
The apacheflex organization has the same issue a year ago, and their conclusion wasn't too promising:
Try unchecking "Automatically watch" at:
https://github.com/watching
I tried that, I hope it will work, just I was wondering if it can be done
from admin rights in the Apache Flex github repo, that's why I was asking Om
unfortunately there are no Admin settings that lets me do this.
The best approach would be to go unwatch repos you dont want here: https://github.com/watching, like Jose mentioned.
This seems to be a per user setting and not a per organization setting.
You might also uncheck the 'Automatically watch' setting if you dont want to do this every repo that gets created.
Not ideal, but this is the best option we have for now.
This seems to be confirmed by the OP Schwern as detailed in the comments:
I contacted Github tech support and they said much the same thing, to turn off "Automatically watch".
Unfortunately that must be done per org member and it's a global option, not specific to the org.
To stop receiving notifications on some of the repos that you have been added to, simply visit this url https://github.com/watching and uncheck/unwatch all the repos you don't want to receive notifications from.
Hope this helps.
Check out github-watchlist
It allows regular expression based mass subscribing and unsubscribing for repositories.
Github-watchlist
I'm almost 8 years late but this can be handy.
# Make sure the personal access token has access to notifications & repo
GH_TOKEN=<TOKEN-HERE>
ORGANIZATION=<ORG-NAME>
MAX_REPO_COUNT=5000
repolist=$(GH_TOKEN=$GH_TOKEN gh repo list $ORGANIZATION -L $MAX_REPO_COUNT --json name --jq '.[].name')
echo $repolist | while read repo; do
echo "Unsubscribing from $ORGANIZATION/$repo\n"
GH_TOKEN=$GH_TOKEN gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" /repos/$ORGANIZATION/$repo/subscription --method PUT -F ignored=true | jq '.'
done