🤔 Suggestion: What about sharing your private repo with anyone just by a special link ?

[ayoub3bidi]

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I was thinking lately about the possibility of sharing my private repo with someone by a link I give it to him, so he can see it without making it public (a similare thing when you want to share a file from your google drive, you switch the General Access from Restricted to Anyone with the link and then you get a link you can give it to anyone to see your file).

I Think it will be a cool feature to have. What do you think ?

[devvsakib]

You can invite them so they will be able to access your repo and fork, as well as pr

[ayoub3bidi]

I know but that requires them to accept the invitation, but what about giving a link straight ahead just to see the code without any pre-actions. I think that will be useful.

[devvsakib]

no doubt. this would be obviously helpful and easier.

[itcarroll]

An "Anyone with the link can clone" feature for private repositories would be tremendously useful for exactly the same reasons that "Anyone with the link can view" is popular on Google Drive. You can share it with people who don't have an account. You want re-sharing to happen. You don't want to manage all the viewers.

Why not just make it public? Maybe you don't want the public to see issues or other GitHub features you are using. Maybe you want anyone to access the main branch, but not your development branch.

A related feature request is 32813.

[kimukook]

Some of the journal/conference requires that the paper submitted also come along with the authors' GitHub repo which contains the numerical simulation. I would like my repo to stay private before the publication, but visualizable to reviewers with a link so that they could see my results and code.

[jbellUIC]

As an instructor, my students have a strong desire for this feature.

I set up github repositories for them to use for their semester projects, both for them to share files among the group and for turning in their work for grading purposes. I want to keep the repositories private to prevent copying, either from students in the current semester or from past semester projects.

But the students would like to show their work to prospective employers when job hunting, for which they would put a link on their resumes for example. The "invitation to clone" model doesn't really work in this situation, but the "anyone with this particular link can view" would.

[KatayR]

Please please PLEASE IT'S 2024

[abdulahaddf]

As of now it's a mandatory feature.
anyone with the link can view the repo.

[ginqus]

please add this, it would be so useful

[quangsiDev]

please add this, that would be so useful

[PsyBrainy]

please add this!

[MsRiaCayde]

This feature would be beneficial to anyone searching for a position in the Tech field. The ability to share private repos with potential employers would allow users to upload project source code for (in my case) Game Design without compromising your project or release.

[ankit-gautam23]

The most secure way is to invite users as collaborators on your repository. This gives them specific access levels (read, write, etc.) based on your needs.

[ossup0v]

please add this!

[alnahian2003]

still not added? please add this feature. Thousands of people would get benefit from it

[xgloom]

This would be a great feature.

I would want to be able to see that there are active links-giving-access though and be able to revoke those at any time.

[vinayak071005]

Why is this still not a thing!! I am guessing security concerns? But we can restrict the pull requests to modify the private project by anyone so I don't see the point as to why they did not add the feature yet!

Please provide this feature.

[ananya183]

Desperately need this!

[tanlda]

+1

[yuelei0428]

I'm also looking for this feature. It will be very helpful!

[tiham93]

Yes this would be great for freelancers too. We need to send repos as a portfolio a lot and can't just keep inviting random people.

[saaraorav5366]

Please implement this feature!!

[drdream]

We also need to share code/projects with recruiters for jobs that we don't want stolen and may use ApiKeys.. Please implement this feature

[Spectral-Dreams]

please add this feature. thank you.

[drdream]

I had good luck with https://gitfront.io/ .. only problem is it won't stay updated, you must do a refresh on gitfront for changes :(

[Chris-C3A]

I've just released https://gitshare.me which solves exactly this problem and has github integration which makes it really easy to use!

I'd apprecitate any feedback on it as well as what you'd like it to have in the future (in terms of features)

[KyrietS]

Nice project, but... $5 per month to have more than 1-day expiration limit? Dude... 🙄

[Chris-C3A]

Thanks! The subscription isn't just to have more than 1-day expiration limit for your repos, but it gives access to more features and any we add in the future. But I do understand the frustration, we are considering changing that restriction. Have you had the chance to try the app / is there anything you would like to see us implement?

[JL-ghcoder]

There should be a function for subscription, it would be more interesting than sponsor project