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Creating a Repository in your Organization

3:29 with Kyle Daigle and Alyson La

In an Organization, the repositories are owned by the organization instead of the user who created them.

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    In stage one with Alison you created a new repository. 0:00
    That repository is owned by your user. 0:04
    In an organization like Acme Inc the repository should be 0:06
    owned by the organization instead. 0:09
    Let's start by creating a new repository in the organization, give it a little bit 0:11
    of content, and give our developers team access to the new repository. 0:16
    From the GitHub dashboard click the plus icon on the top right of the page, and 0:21
    choose new repository. 0:25
    This screen should look pretty familiar, but 0:28
    we need to do something a little different. 0:30
    Where you see your username you'll wanna choose your organization. 0:33
    I'm going to choose kdaigle-inc. 0:36
    Choosing kdaigle inc means the repository will be owned by the kdaigle inc 0:40
    organization. 0:44
    You can name the repository magnum opus. 0:45
    Okay, let's make this repository public. 0:52
    Public repositories are free, but you may want to use private for 0:55
    any real code within your organization. 0:59
    Next, click the check box that says initialize this repository with a readme. 1:01
    This will give us a simple text based readme to start working with. 1:06
    All right, click create repository. 1:10
    There you go. 1:14
    You have a brand new repository owned by your organization. 1:15
    We have a really simple readme all set and ready to go. 1:19
    At the moment only you can access the repository. 1:22
    Let's give access to the developers team we created in the last video. 1:26
    At the top of your repository click the settings tab. 1:30
    This will bring us to settings specific to our repository. 1:33
    On the left side bar click collaborators and teams. 1:37
    At this point the screen will be pretty blank. 1:42
    You just created the repository and 1:45
    we haven't given anyone else in the organization access yet. 1:47
    On this screen you have two options to give people access to the repository 1:50
    using teams or using collaborators. 1:54
    Like in the last video teams are great when you have a functional area, 1:57
    skill set, or a project that you'd like to group people by. 2:01
    Sometimes though you only wanna grant a single person access to the repository. 2:04
    This is useful when you have a rare exception or you have someone outside your 2:09
    organization that you'd like to give access to just this one repository. 2:13
    This is when you'd use the collaborators feature. 2:17
    For our repository since it's a product our whole team will be working on 2:20
    we should give access to the developers team. 2:24
    Click the add a team button, and then in the drop down 2:26
    we'll select the developers team that we created in the previous video. 2:31
    Now we'll need to choose the level of access the developers team should have to 2:36
    this repository. 2:39
    There are three permission levels. 2:41
    Admin, write, and read. 2:43
    Read means you can only read the code. 2:47
    Write means that you can write the code as well as a few 2:50
    other things in the repository like creating labels and milestones. 2:52
    Finally admin means you can read, write, and 2:57
    manage the settings in access like we're doing right now. 3:00
    For the developers team write makes the most sense. 3:03
    We want them to be able to make changes to the code, but 3:06
    not allow them to give others access to the repository. 3:09
    Let's go ahead and give them write access. 3:13
    That's it. 3:16
    Now we have an organization owned repository and 3:16
    we've granted the developers team the ability to make changes to 3:19
    the code >> In the next video we'll cover creating 3:22
    a great poll request for code review within your organization. 3:25

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