Is there a way to have each contributor to a private repo have their commits be public on their github account, while still having the Github repo private?
The idea is to demonstrate contributor contribution to private repos, without revealing folder structure / code of the repo itself.
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Do GitHub Pages repositories have to be public, or on a private one is possible?
Do GitHub Pages repositories have to be public, or on a private one is
possible?
It is possible to use GitHub Pages with a private repository.
GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and
GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories
with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub
Enterprise Server. For more information, see "GitHub's products."
That is from https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages.
I do not have premium account of gitHub, and I want to know If I have private repository and someone do not have paid version of gitHub account, can I let him to contribute with me on private repository, and all of commit and change that done by that public account remain private for my project.
Thanks.
Yes you should be able to add a collaborator to a private repo, GitHub provides steps. Private repos on GitHub require a paid per month subscription. A non paying member should be able to be added to a private repository.
I am curious if I can add a collaborator for just watching my project without giving him the rights to make it public, yet.
So, the current situation would be:
- I created a private GitHub repo that I don't want to have public yet
- I have a colleague who does not have a paid GitHub account
- I want to add this colleague as "watcher" only without exposing the project to the public yet
Would that work?
Assuming you trust your collaborator to not clone the repo and post it publically, yes you can add them as a collaborator to see the private repo.
From Github's docs: "All collaborators must have GitHub accounts. It's easy to sign up, and even accounts on the free plan can collaborate on private repositories"
I have free GitHub account and forked a private repo.
Now I'd like to add collaborators to my fork.
But there's no "Collaborators" tab under Settings page.
Is this functionality not available for free plans?
This is probably due to the fact that you forked a private repo. So, only the owner of the original repo that you forked may share the project with other users - you cannot. For the same reason, you (probably?) can't make a fork of a private repo public - only the owner of the original private repo can make it public.
I have access to a private repository. If I fork the private repository what is the access the owner of the original repository or the admin of the original repository have to my forked repository? How do these rules change if I fork a public repository?
When forking a private repository, all the collaborators will be copied automatically, meaning the owner will have push rights to your fork. You can later remove collaborators from the repository settings page.
When forking a public repository collaborators are not copied so you'll be the only one with push rights.