1 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:05,310 So the first thing we'll talk about is the difference between public and private repositories on GitHub, 2 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:06,640 pretty straightforward. 3 00:00:07,230 --> 00:00:08,650 There are two settings, right? 4 00:00:08,910 --> 00:00:10,350 One, setting with two options. 5 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:15,780 You can make the visibility of any GitHub repository, public or private, assuming that you're the 6 00:00:15,780 --> 00:00:18,760 owner and you have permission to make it public or private. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,470 So when you create a new repository, it prompts you with that choice. 8 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:28,560 Here I have two GitHub accounts, the one I've been using, Colt, and then I made a new one for my 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,210 chicken, Steve Chicks. 10 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:32,310 So that's Steve Chicks. 11 00:00:32,310 --> 00:00:33,840 I'm also trying to make it clear up top. 12 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,340 This is Stevie's account and this one's mine, because here it's somewhat easy to tell. 13 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:43,500 But once we get on an actual repository page, if we're looking at the same repo, it's really hard 14 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:44,580 to tell who is who. 15 00:00:44,580 --> 00:00:47,650 You can look at this little photo up there, but that's kind of that's it. 16 00:00:47,910 --> 00:00:50,880 So I put the name up top, Stevie and Colt. 17 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:57,060 Anyway, if I make a new repository, new repository, we've seen that it promptly for a name and then 18 00:00:57,060 --> 00:00:59,480 hear public or private. 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,620 So there's an important difference. 20 00:01:01,710 --> 00:01:07,860 A public repository is accessible, it's discoverable, it's cleanable by anyone on the Internet. 21 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,740 They can go find your repo by searching on GitHub. 22 00:01:10,740 --> 00:01:13,110 They can find it by looking at your profile. 23 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,610 They can just have the link and view it right. 24 00:01:16,630 --> 00:01:18,000 Anybody can access it. 25 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:22,380 That still does not mean people can change the contents of the repository. 26 00:01:22,380 --> 00:01:24,270 They can't push to the repository. 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,080 They have to have collaborator privileges or permissions to do that. 28 00:01:28,650 --> 00:01:30,120 And I'll show you how to set that up. 29 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:31,560 But that's a separate topic. 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,180 We're purely talking about visibility so anybody can see a public repo. 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:42,480 But when I make something private, it's only accessible to the owner, a.k.a. me, who created it, 32 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:45,420 and then people who have been granted access. 33 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:48,750 So they have explicitly been added as collaborators. 34 00:01:48,780 --> 00:01:51,270 They then have access to a private repo. 35 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:57,120 Now things work slightly differently if we're talking about an organization or enterprise level GitHub 36 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:02,520 account where a private repository can be visible to everyone within the organization. 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:08,010 But we're working with personal free accounts, so a private repo is only visible to me, the owner 38 00:02:08,010 --> 00:02:10,770 and people I specifically grant access to. 39 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:18,210 So let's try making sure let's go with their name that they suggest bookish Desco and then I'll make 40 00:02:18,210 --> 00:02:19,320 it public to start. 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,510 OK, I'll just create. 42 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:22,980 We're not going to do anything in here. 43 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,830 I'm just making this repo so anybody can see this. 44 00:02:25,830 --> 00:02:31,560 Now if they go to my profile, go to repositories here it is bookish disco. 45 00:02:32,190 --> 00:02:39,450 OK, so if I copy this over I'm in Safari, I'm in a different browser here on Steve's account and if 46 00:02:39,450 --> 00:02:44,070 I go to this URL to view it, that's kind of why it's confusing, right? 47 00:02:44,070 --> 00:02:46,020 I'm viewing somebody else's account. 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:52,980 I see bookish disco, even though I'm logged in as somebody else now, I don't see the same display 49 00:02:53,010 --> 00:02:53,670 like here. 50 00:02:53,820 --> 00:02:56,130 If I go to bookish disco, I'm the owner. 51 00:02:56,340 --> 00:02:58,650 So I see this information about getting set up. 52 00:02:58,650 --> 00:03:00,270 But I also see settings. 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,160 I don't see that here. 54 00:03:02,610 --> 00:03:07,080 I'm just some member of the public viewing the repository because it's public. 55 00:03:07,590 --> 00:03:08,070 All right. 56 00:03:08,490 --> 00:03:15,240 So speaking of settings, if you want to toggle or change that privacy under settings for a repository, 57 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,400 you have to be the owner unless we're talking about an organization or enterprise level account. 58 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:25,500 In that case, you don't have to be the owner, but you have to be granted permission to change the 59 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:26,700 visibility anyway. 60 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:31,890 If I want to change visibility, it's under options which we're already on, on settings, and then 61 00:03:31,890 --> 00:03:35,580 you just scroll for a long, long ways down to the very bottom. 62 00:03:35,730 --> 00:03:41,400 We're looking for the danger zone and then we have this right here, change repository visibility. 63 00:03:42,090 --> 00:03:45,570 So I'm going to change visibility just to demonstrate this. 64 00:03:46,020 --> 00:03:50,250 And I'm going to make it private, but it's going to ask me to type in. 65 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:54,360 Well, first, it actually just shows me all the all the changes that will happen. 66 00:03:54,690 --> 00:04:01,860 Anybody who is watching the repository, anybody who has starred it, you can star repositories like 67 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:02,700 here's an example. 68 00:04:02,970 --> 00:04:05,070 A couple of hundred people have started this one. 69 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:06,030 People are watching it. 70 00:04:06,030 --> 00:04:07,080 They get notifications. 71 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,990 So if I make that private, that goes away. 72 00:04:10,620 --> 00:04:14,460 But then also there's some other changes that go along with making something private. 73 00:04:14,610 --> 00:04:18,540 I'll lose wikis and different poll requests and other things. 74 00:04:18,690 --> 00:04:20,250 Basically, we're going private. 75 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:24,600 So anything involving the public goes away, but we don't have anything in here anyway. 76 00:04:24,630 --> 00:04:25,860 So I'm going to type that. 77 00:04:25,980 --> 00:04:33,030 It wants me to exactly type the name of the repo so called slash book ish dash desco. 78 00:04:33,420 --> 00:04:33,990 All right. 79 00:04:33,990 --> 00:04:34,650 I understand. 80 00:04:34,650 --> 00:04:36,630 Change visibility now at once. 81 00:04:36,630 --> 00:04:37,200 My password. 82 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:40,530 OK, so now it shows up as private right here. 83 00:04:40,710 --> 00:04:42,180 I'm on my account as Colts'. 84 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:43,950 I'm the owner so I can see that. 85 00:04:44,340 --> 00:04:46,920 But if I refresh this page where I'm logged in as Steve. 86 00:04:48,050 --> 00:04:50,010 Four or four, I don't have access at all. 87 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:51,780 I can't see that repository. 88 00:04:51,830 --> 00:04:53,120 I don't know it exists anymore. 89 00:04:53,130 --> 00:04:54,040 It's gone private. 90 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,050 So that's the distinction and that's how you change them generally. 91 00:04:58,190 --> 00:04:58,820 It's a pain. 92 00:04:58,820 --> 00:05:05,240 If you have a public repo and you make it private, I don't recommend having some big established repository 93 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,890 with a whole bunch of collaborators and then going private and suddenly it's just gone. 94 00:05:10,670 --> 00:05:12,470 But you can do that, OK? 95 00:05:12,740 --> 00:05:17,240 Generally, I go the other direction, start something in secret, started private so people can't see 96 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:17,510 them. 97 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:24,140 For example, all these horrible little dumb demo reposts that we have just for this course, all these 98 00:05:24,350 --> 00:05:28,130 get reposts like animals, colors, chickens, GitHub, demo novel. 99 00:05:28,370 --> 00:05:34,580 I would normally make those private and then maybe make them public, but I'm making them public because 100 00:05:34,580 --> 00:05:35,630 I want you to be able to see them. 101 00:05:35,630 --> 00:05:37,250 This is a legit course, OK?