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Is it posslible to deploy a github repo that is shared with me?

  • Posted February 12, 2022

I want to deploy a github Repository of which i am not the owner but a contributer but the repository is not available. Is there a Way to deploy such repos?

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Bobby Iliev • February 13, 2022

Hello,

What I would personally do is to just fork the repository and then deploy your own fork, that way you would not need to have write access to the upstream repository.

Regards,

Bobby

alexdo • February 13, 2022

Hello there,

I believe that you can achieve this but you’ll also need to transfer the repository to another owner afterwards. Repositories owned by user accounts have one owner. Ownership permissions can’t be shared with another user account.

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-user-account-settings/permission-levels-for-a-user-account-repository

You can also check Github’s docs for transferring a repo to another account:

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

Regards, Alex