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Support repository categories #4174
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Perhaps more fitting to the GitHub style of organizing non-hierarchical data: labels? |
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I'm ideally looking for a way to categorize my repositories, without resorting to something like creating an organization. I feel like your labels approach almost fits into what topics do - labels could only show results for a specific user, but it's not much of what I had in mind. |
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hmm 🤔 |
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Yes, please. What makes the flat list of repositories extra weird is the possibility to create a rich hierarchy of teams, assign complex roles and permissions to these teams in various repositories, and then still have repositories presented as a flat list without any connection to the teams that have ownership over them. If only repositories could be "owned" by different teams and then presented in the same hierarchical order as the teams they are owned by, that would solve this whole debacle for me. |
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I agree: I'm currently using GitLab and its possibility to organize repositories is one of its best features. |
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Yes, it would be a great improvement of the repos organization if it would be possible to add purpose dependant repos into ad-hoc folders, like in GitLab. GitLab Subgroups |
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I agree with this idea. |
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This would be a nice addition to GitHub. |
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It would be a great improvement of the repos organization if it would be possible to add purpose dependant repos into ad-hoc folders, like in GitLab. GitLab Subgroups |
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we're considering moving to github from bitbucket but this is major reason we are getting pushback. gitlab, bitbucket both support this. please consider adding. |
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Most devs at my company regret us moving away from Bitbucket to GH. |
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I really need this feature, being able to organize projects by "subgroups" or folders, it's essential. GitLab and Bitbucket have had this functionality for a long time. |
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༼ つ ◕__◕ ༽つ Yes please |
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This would be extremely useful, even if it's just 1 level of nesting. I'm surprised this isn't a bigger topic since GitLab has had it for years. READMEs or permission inheritance would be a cherry on top. |
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I'm surprised too. This is a huge limitation... |
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Not gona lie. Just grouping without any additional functionality would be enought |
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what kind of additional functionality are you looking for? |
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This was in response to the "root" comment, who mentioned
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Is this something that could be done with a 3rd party plugin, or github app, or something similar? Because this issue has been around for a long time, and basically ignored. It seems pretty unlikely it's ever going to be implemented. |
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Should I close this in favor of that issue? It's a heck of a lot older and has a ton of responses on it. |
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In my opinion, I don't think so, if the discussion remains open, it will ensure that the matter does not fall into oblivion 😅 |
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Also, this repository is the official feedback forum |
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No - the more issues the better. Maybe something will happen. |
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I didn't even realize that was posted in a different repository, guess I just overlooked it :p. That's enough incentive for me to keep the issue open. |
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ok, so how do I upvote it? |
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Same! |
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If you look @ the original post of this request (#4174 (comment)), you'll see ↑ on its bottom extreme left. That's the upvote. Click & make sure it's highlighted (like when you react, typically 👍, to a post). Congrats, you've upvoted. |
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I work at a large company with thousands of repositories and not having a good time here. My group alone has over 450 repos and it's basically becoming unmanageable. We migrated from Bitbucket two years ago and miss this feature every. single. day. |
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Completely true, I feel the same 😅 |
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Please! This is sorely needed in our organization. |
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Sorry to disappoint you but... We are at 7 years waiting (looking back at the original thread) so you better consider gitlab |
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I frequently see organizations having action-only repositories alongside other repositories. It would be nice if one could categorize the former as such for filtering or grouping. |
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Repositories already have tags, what if a simple UI change allowed browsing repositories by tag? |
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Weird that the concept of folder hierarchies, which e.g. MS-DOS had since version 2.0 in 1983, is still such a hard one to grasp and implement ... :( |
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@sovetski I replied to nafg, it is what they wanted. |
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https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/69914#discussioncomment-7374326 I asked this question a while ago in the respective discussion, yet no reply. I think, this limitation is a little stupid and prevents a lot of people from benefitting from that feature. |
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I agree. This is a change that would be very helpful for a lot of individuals, not just organizations. I hope this restriction is due a technical limitation, that GitHub is planning to resolve, and not because they want people to create (and eventually pay for) organizations. |
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I'm afraid, it's the latter, but let's not assume the worst. |
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Folders please. |
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There may be technical limitations, that prevent quick and easy implementation of folder. But this is so crucial, I would love to deal with limitations of this feature, if that helps getting the feature at all. |
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This feature is the only reason I'm using gitlab right now |
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Waiting impatiently for this feature 🙏 Repository-groups or repository-folders would be just as good. |
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That's a real pain. |
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+1 -- Please add folder hierarchy for repositories |
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We are coming up on 3 years, and so far the best answer is.... move to GitLab. |
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And it would be so easy to just extend the custom properties to repositories—but I have a feeling, GitHub, for some reason, is vehemently against it. Otherwise, I can't explain their blatant ear-shattering silence about it. |
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as a workaround for "folder navigating to your repo", you can make a "repos" repository and create your own folder structure representing your repos. and in the folders you create readme.md containing the links to the relevant repos. |
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A better idea is to move to gitlab and leave a link to the new repo in the old one. |
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@mschwartz that would require full control over all the repos you are involved in though ... |
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I do. I haven’t started a new repo on GitHub ina couple of years. GitLab fills my needs. And Microsoft doesn’t get to scan my private repos. I’m voting with my feet and pocket book. |
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thinking of migrating to gitlab |
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Here to echo the sentiment everybody else has already expressed. I don't want to create a GitHub organization just to group some of my repositories that happen to be related. I might, just so I can continue to have all my repositories on GitHub. That or have a prefix for the repository names. |
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I was literally telling people in my organization, why aren't these categorized in GitHub under folders. I just realized that GitHub doesn't have this basic featureset 🤦 +1 on the folder request. Sorry guys Microsoft is buying up companies but not updating anything yet lol. |
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As my number of repositories continues to grow, I'm seeing that it would be great if there was a way to categorize all of them so I could manage them better.
My initial idea includes either doing something where they're just listed under titled headers, or a folder-like system that I could place repositories inside of.
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