Certain repository settings not copied over when creating a new repo from a template repo

[cadamsmith]

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Is this feature in the works? Are there any alternative workflows my team could use?

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Up to now, I had assumed that branch protections and access settings would be copied over to a new repo when it is created from a template repo.

This includes the users/teams that have access to the new repository

and the branch protections preventing certain actions on our protected branches.

I am now realizing that this behavior I anticipated is not currently in GitHub. Does anyone know if this feature is currently in the works? Alternatively, does anyone have any suggestions for alternative workflows my team could use?

[cadamsmith]

Eh we could always listen to a repository creation webhook and then apply branch protection rules, but it disappoints me greatly that GitHub doesn't have this feature built in by default.

[cadamsmith]

I've never tried this though. Anyone have any guidance?

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Then let me un-dormant it since it seems to be such a bother to have discussions linger that are not resolved. This is NOT resolved. When I create a repository from a template, everything from the template should be copied including (but not at all limited to) Branch Protection (and other) Rules.

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It is most certainly still relevant and not out of date.

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Current discussion seems pretty complete. This is a feature that is badly needed. With the proliferation of one-action-per repo repos are being created very frequently and needing to manually copy all of these settings/config over is very tedious, time-consuming and a general waste of time and a suck on productivity. This is work that we should be having the computers do!

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There is no answer to mark. This is an unanswered request.

[asos-benashley]

I'm also after this functionality.
Its seems odd to me that I would need to re-apply branch protection rules each time I make a repo from a template.

[cadamsmith]

For me this is now just access settings and things like wikis/discussions being turned off since I've swapped over repo-by-repo branch protections over to global rulesets

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[brianjmurrell]

Not dormant, because it's not fixed.

[eccles]

Yes this caught me out as well - when can it be fixed?

[cadamsmith]

Update: now the settings I would like copied over from the template are just the following:

• wikis/discussions being turned off

Since I've swapped over to global branch rulesets and org-wide repository access settings

I'm sure there are other settings not currently being copied over that other people in this thread would like as well