If you have maintainer permissions in a team, you can request to nest an existing team under your team in your organization’s hierarchy.

When you request to add a team as a child, a request is sent to the maintainers of the child team. Once a maintainer of the child team approves your request, the child team is nested under the parent team in your organization's hierarchy.

If you're an organization owner or you have team maintainer permissions in both the child team and the parent team, you can add the child team without requesting approval or change the child team's parent from the child team's settings page. For more information, see "Moving a team in your organization's hierarchy."

Child teams inherit the access permissions of the parent team. For more information on team hierarchies, see "About teams."

  1. Profile photo
    In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.

  2. organization icons
    On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.

  3. Teams tab on the organization page
    Under your organization name, click Teams.

  4. List of the organization's teams
    In the list of teams, click the name of the team where you'd like to add the child team.

  5. Teams tab on a team page
    At the top of the team page, click Teams.
  6. Add a team button on a team page
    Click Add a team.
  7. Text box to type and drop-down menu to select the name of the child team
    Type the name of the team you'd like to add as a child team, and select it from the drop-down list.

  8. Read about the changed repository access permissions.

  9. Modal box with information about the changes in repository access permissions
    Click Confirm changes to send a request to add the child team.

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