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How to create a kind of ''unlisted'' type of repository? #22040
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Is there a way to create a public type of repository that is only accesible to the person having the link to it?, but it wont appear on search results at the site, just like in youtube for example for unlisted videos. Thank you in advance. |
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No, at the time you can’t create unlisted repositories (altough this probably will be logged as a feature request). Please note you can, however, make a private repository and then invite people who have read-only or read-write access if you have a paid account. |
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You have to invite them while you may not have their email. |
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You can create gists. |
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You can also create tiktok videos. Equally irrelevant. |
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How can I turn an existing private repo to a gist? |
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@SpicyCatGames it's actually highly relevant since gists can be cloned, pulled, pushed to, etc. like a git repository! So you can get pretty close to the functionality of an unlisted repo w/ an unlisted gist. Nice call @cometlolxd. |
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Hi @noxuz, Thanks for this feedback! We’re always working to improve GitHub and the GitHub Community Forum, and we consider every suggestion we receive. I’ve logged your feature request in our internal feature request list. Though I can’t guarantee anything or share a timeline for this, I can tell you that it’s been shared with the appropriate teams for consideration. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers! Andrea |
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It's 2023 and still not a feature. Sad. |
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plz add this :( |
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This would be so useful and cool, please. |
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2024 still not a thing :( |
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@AndreaGriffiths11 Is there any updates on this? This seems like a very useful feature, where you want to show your soon to be clients/employers what you have been working on, but do not want to make it visible on your public profile, (since not open-source). |
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Unlisted repositories will be very good to have. For example, I want to share a URL to my assignment with my teacher. I don’t want to make my repository public, because other students can just Google it and plagiarize. I don’t want to make my repository private either, because I don’t know exactly who will be marking my assignment, so I don’t know whom to invite. Even if I know the person who was marking my assignment, they might not have a github account. So having an “unlisted” type of repository (similar to unlisted Youtube videos) will be very helpful. It will be nice for those repositories to have a long unguessable URLs, like https://github.com/USER/73a90acaae2b1ccc0e969709665bc62f. Thanks. :slight_smile: |
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Totally agree. Would be great if this were a feature. |
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+1 Our company has a lot of private repos and some public ones. We maintain a repo named “userscript” full of useful userscripts our teams can use. Some of these scripts are useful to people outside of R&D, and having them create a GitHub account to access them is a deal-breaker. We made this repo public so everyone in the company can use it, but now it appears on our company’s GitHub page. We put a warning in the readme, but having an option to completly hide it from that list would be very useful. Cheers,
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Currently going through this exact situation and surprised it’s still not a feature. I’m having to keep it private till the day of the deadline, at which point I’ll make the repo public, but it’s something I really shouldn’t have to do. |
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For smaller things like school projects using secret gists (see https://gist.github.com/) may be an option. They are git repositories, and according to the documentation hidden from search engines. |
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+1, this feature should be added |
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+1, this is great for sharing simple things with collaborators without GitHub. |
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+1, interviews are asking for a direct link to code only, and I cannot share school project code publicly! |
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+1. This seems like the perfect feature for use cases where you want to share code of a “not ready for prime time” nature (job interviews, school projects, etc). |
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+1, was looking for this as well. Would be nice to have this to prevent polluting one’s repos, but link to it from an issue as repro steps in another repo. |
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+1, this would be very useful for interviews / job applications to not leak proprietary source code. |
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+1 This is very important! |
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+1 this is very useful |
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I would love this feature |
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would love unlisted repos so I can make code available to my CI/CD system without having to setup keys etc. Obviously not idea but would work well for my use case and make things a lot easier. |
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+1 from me! |
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+1 from me as well! |
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Half a decade and they still haven't worked on this feature, what are developers doing? |
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This is like a time machine. |
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Please add this. I am considering switching away from GitHub to self-hosted. |
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It's not as hood as a real solution, but for hosting issue reproduction this works pretty well: https://craigory.dev/blog/2024-09-11/gh-unlisted-repos/ |
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yaaaay 🎉 |
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Just use BitBucket for the repos you don't want to have listed. Having them public there is almost as good as an unlisted repo on GitHub ;) |
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gitfront.io works well |
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and others
No, at the time you can’t create unlisted repositories (altough this probably will be logged as a feature request).
Please note you can, however, make a private repository and then invite people who have read-only or read-write access if you have a paid account.