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🤔 Suggestion: What about sharing your private repo with anyone just by a special link ? #44506
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You can invite them so they will be able to access your repo and fork, as well as pr |
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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. |
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no doubt. this would be obviously helpful and easier. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Please please PLEASE IT'S 2024 |
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As of now it's a mandatory feature. |
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please add this, it would be so useful |
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please add this, that would be so useful |
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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 AccessfromRestrictedtoAnyone with the linkand 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 ?
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