Create groups of repositories #41348
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well as for now, we have Orgs that you can use to group your projects, you can have an Org without members, it's just to organize your repos plus you have different domains that you can use for your custom domains without conflict with your personal account |
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I think this "category" feature would be ideal, especially for solo developers or for freelancers who don't wish to create an organization (as suggested by @jdevstatic). Otherwise the repo section of a users profile is little more than an ordered list, rather than say, something like a more complex hierarchy represented as a timeline or chronology of work history/overview of projects undertaken i.e. a format that acknowledges how messy, or clean, development can be (at opposite extremes). |
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This is such a simple feature I cannot imagine why it doesn't exists in the first place. Organizations are nice, but as other people mentions they don't have a hierarchy. Plus, they come with a whole bunch of settings and additional stuff that I don't need nor want to care about. For all practical purposes creating an organization it's like having yet another account to manage. |
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Additionally if you were working with Microservice that per service has its own repository and you don't want to messed up by searching and looking for the other services related to the project, especially to those community contributors who has tons of repositories, and the Organization feature, what if I have multiple organization and each organization has different unrelated group of repositories how would you think it looks like, it will be more messy of course, that is why we proposed Group of Repositories, and it will be very more significant for developers who deals many projects |
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This is so basic that I find myself very confused as of why this is not implemented. If I have a big organization, and have different teams, products, I would like to organize their repos in different groups, and give them access to all those repos in the group, for example. |
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I also came across this limitation. In my company, we use GitLab, where this is a solved problem. I would like something similar in GitHub, I work on a side project where I have lots of different repositories for frontend stuff, microservices, and libraries. I would like to have separate groups for all of these because it is really messy to find what I am looking for just in the list of repos. And yes, I have a GitHub org just for this project. But grouping within the org is what is needed. |
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In dire need of this as well... Alternatively instead of a single category, the ability to add one or more labels to a repo would be good too. This way you have a little more flexibility as you can group repos in more than 1 way. Then add a label filter to the overview and we're good to go 👏 |
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I would love to see this feature added! |
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This is a long requested feature. Think about this case. I have two different projects inside the same organization. Each project containing multiple microservices. As of now, the only alternative is to create two different organizations. Maybe back in 2007 it was pointless, but now, when the average app has at least two separate repositories it is essential to organize them in the same organization. |
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Let me add my voice to this thread too. I teach DSP and I want to share with my students demos, libraries and other stuff. Having categories would allow me to create a, say, "Teaching DSP" top level group and then, underneath it, "demos," "libs," and so on. I decided to use GitLab because it has this feature. |
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Use a local gitlab server at the company I work at and its had the ability to organize repos into groups for quite sometime now. So I'm kinda shocked github hasn't added their own version of the feature yet. Would love for it to be a thing. |
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can't believe such a basic feature is to be requested, considering all other tools provide it. bummer !! I'm leaving.. |
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As of today, I can see 2 different ways to group repositories:
Teams are not only groups of people, they can be used to group repositories together and can be nested. Great insights about this in this gist. I'm curious to know the reasons why it hasn't been mentioned here before, as from my understanding, it seems to be the way to go (instead of using organizations which are not meant to group repositories, as per the official documentation). |
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+156 I would like to categorise my repos under "Packages (For Use)" or "Personal Projects" or even "Just Mucking Around" etc. No one could know whether one or another project might be useful to them in their own software. |
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+157 Still surprised in a disappointing way that this feature hasn't been implemented. |
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This would be really useful, I have multiple repositories for a single project, but really need to group them together with a single issue tracker for all the repos so that bug reporters don't have to understand how the project is split between the repos when reporting. Having everything in a single repo isn't a viable option for me. |
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+1Just started using github, migrated a bunch of repos (private) from svn for an organization. Not being able to group makes for a lot of extra noise. Groups would be very useful for organization, presentation, and permission control. |
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Surprised they don't have this, honestly. I was hoping to separate what I'm practicing on as I learn from anything serious I make in the future. |
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We would also highly appreciate this feature. With our UI we often have anywhere between 10 to 100 sub packages, which all are their own separate repository within the organisation. And without this feature it is an incredible pain. We hope this will be seriously considered soon. |
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This is so damn stupid that we still do not have this feature. At this point I will just create another repository that will contain links in README to related repos... |
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I worked for a long time with gitlab and I fell out of my chair when I saw that this feature wasn't available on github entreprise. I work in a company with a lot of repositories (more than 20000 repos !) . It's unmanageable |
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1+I have some repositories that are fully in portuguese, and adding them with the english ones sounds wrong. It would be WAY better if we could separate it in different groups. It's just more efficient than creating a repo just to gather other repositories that will still be among other things. Edits: Grammar. |
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I am migrating from gitlab and facing the same issue where my project in gitlab had good structure and groups while not in github, it shall be a mess |
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New feature - group repositories (categories)
Currently I have many repos. Some are projects from university others personal, and some more serious.
I would like to be able to group my repositories
I.e. create a group where I can put all my demo projects in
I feel like the list of repositories is quite cluttered and could use some more organisation. I only have 9 repos at the moment but I can easily see this just getting more chaotic as time goes on.
If you could make this a feature that would be awesome.
Thanks :)))
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