Question
How to disconnect/reconnect to GitHub repo for automated deployment to App Platform
- Posted on February 3, 2025
- DeploymentApp Platform
Asked by Girish Gupta
This should be incredibly easy, as it is in every other cloud provider’s portal, but here there is no option I can see—in an existing app—to disconnect a GitHub account, reconnect (or connect to another), and then pick a repository from which to deploy…
I’ve been back and forth with support, who tell me to sign out of GitHub, do various browser gymnastics, and then hopefully I’ll get an option to reconnect. I don’t…
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Hey Girish! 👋
Yes, what support told you is currently the way to go when trying to disconnect/reconnect a GitHub repo on App Platform.
If you’d like to see a better solution, the best way to get this on DigitalOcean’s radar is to submit a feature request on the Product Ideas board:
🔗 https://ideas.digitalocean.com/
Be sure to include details on how you’d like it to work! And feel free to share a link to the idea here so other people can upvote it as well.
- Bobby