Setting repository visibility

About repository visibility changes

Organization owners can restrict the ability to change repository visibility to organization owners only. For more information, see "Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization."

We recommend reviewing the following caveats before you change the visibility of a repository.

Making a repository private

• GitHub Enterprise Server will detach public forks of the public repository and put them into a new network. Public forks are not made private.
• If you change a repository's visibility from internal to private, GitHub will remove forks that belong to any user without access to the newly private repository. The visibility of any forks will also change to private. For more information, see "What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?"
• Any published GitHub Pages site will be automatically unpublished.
• Anonymous Git read access is no longer available. For more information, see "Enabling anonymous Git read access for a repository."

Making a repository internal

• Any forks of the repository will remain in the repository network, and GitHub Enterprise Server maintains the relationship between the root repository and the fork. For more information, see "What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?"

Making a repository public

• GitHub Enterprise Server will detach private forks and turn them into a standalone private repository. For more information, see "What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?"

Making a repository private

1. On GitHub Enterprise Server, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Settings.
   
3. Under "Danger Zone", next to "Make this repository private", click Make private.
   
4. Read the warnings about making a repository private.
   
5. Type the name of the repository that you want to make private, for example accountname/reponame.
6. Click I understand, make this repository private.

Making a repository public

1. On GitHub Enterprise Server, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Settings.
   
3. Under "Danger Zone", next to "Make this repository public", click Make public.
   
4. Read the warnings about making a repository public.
   
5. Type the name of the repository that you want to make public, for example accountname/reponame.
6. Click I understand, make this repository public.

Making a repository internal

1. On GitHub Enterprise Server, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Settings.
   
3. Under "Danger Zone", next to "Make this repository internal", click Make internal.
   
4. Read the warnings about making a repository internal.
   
5. Type the name of the repository that you want to make internal, for example accountname/reponame.
6. Click I understand, make this repository internal.

Further reading

• "About repository visibility"