## Branch Rename is now available through GitHub API

You can [**rename a branch with the GitHub REST API**][1].

And you can easily [**run API commands via the `gh` CLI**][2] all like this:

```bash
gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}/rename" -f new_name={newBranch}
```




[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/branches#rename-a-branch
[2]: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_api

I just renamed my local branch using

    git branch -m oldname newname

but this only renames the local version of the branch. How can I rename the one on GitHub?

Renaming a branch in GitHub

Team memberships have somewhat limited permissions scopes to individually named repositories.  

If you want to set someone as an admin for the **entire organization**:


1. Navigate to the Organization > People

   [![org > people][1]][1]

2. Identify the member you want to update and click on the settings cog

   [![settings > change role][2]][2]

3. Set role to `Owner`

   [![Select Role][3]][3]


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/hMdM5.png
  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/GTGra.png
  [3]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYZHq.png

I need to [transfer a repository from a user account to an organization][1] the user is a member of. Per GitHUb's docs,  I need to make the user account an admin of the organization first.

GitHub's docs describe [the different levels of access to an organization][2], but I **can't find out how to actually change a user's level of access to an organisation**. 

How can I make the organization member an admin?


  [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/how-to-transfer-a-repository
  [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/what-are-the-different-access-permissions

GitHub: how do I make a user an admin of an organization?

no, not through a direct link.

"Loading" a folder from a git repo only means **[sparse checkout][1]** (partial clone).

Any other solution would indeed mean building an artifact and upload it.

Update August 2016 (2 years later): you can have a look at [this answer][2] and the [DownGit project][3], by [Minhas Kamal][4].


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13738951/6309
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38879691/6309
  [3]: https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home
  [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/4684058/minhas-kamal

I have a repository that has several folders of code. I'd like to be able to provide a link to the code in a single folder so another user could download just the relevant bits of code without being bloated by the rest of the codebase and without requiring that they have git installed on their machine.  

Of course, they can browse the code files inside of the folder online, but that isn't very helpful if they want to run a single project.

Here are several other similar questions, and why I don't think they address my particular issues:


* [How to download source in .zip format from GitHub?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/2751227/1366033)
    * Only provides a way to download the entire project, otherwise perfect.
* [Github download folder as zip](https://stackoverflow.com/q/14293829/1366033)
    * This answer is for build artifacts.  I don't want to upload the source code twice just so I can provide a download link to it.
* [Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repo](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7106012/1366033)
    * Requires using git commands to get a single folder.  I'd rather have the link accessible to multiple people without requiring they have git installed.
* [GitHub - Download single files](https://stackoverflow.com/q/4604663/1366033)
    * Only provides mechanism for downloading single files, not folders

In case it helps provide a concrete example, here's a folder that I would like to be able to download via a link:  
https://github.com/KyleMit/CodingEverything/tree/master/MVCBootstrapNavbar/Source%20Code

Is there any way to do this?

Generate download link for a single folder in GitHub

You're missing the basic trick that (see "unless" in a moment) git aliases are just direct git-only commands, with no shell involved and no ability to run non-git commands:

    [alias]
        foo = checkout

*unless* preceded by a shell escape `!` character:

    [alias]
        bar = !git checkout

(at this point both aliases mean the same thing).  Since you *want* the shell to get involved, so as to run sub-commands `$(...)` and pipes `... | ...`—these are all "shell" things, not "git" things—you need the `!` prefix syntax.  All the rest of your experimentation will then go much better.

---

That said, addressing your base problem: I know little about most GUI editors, but in gitk you can select any revision you like in the topmost pane, click the "tree" selector in the lower right pane, and then select any file in the tree (going through directories as needed) to view the file in the lower left pane.  It's true that this will not get you the whole tree, of course, just one file at a time.  (Click back on the "patch" selector to go back to viewing patches.)

The other thing I would do here is to avoid these `HEAD`-relative operations when possible: instead of "step forward one" (which is tricky), you can start from a known fixed point—or at least, fixed for the duration of the demo—such as a branch name, and use git's revision syntax (see [gitrevisions](https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrevisions.html)) to select commits however far back you mean:

    git checkout master~5
    ... demonstrate something ...
    git checkout master~4
    ... demonstrate next thing ...

The <code>~<i>n</i></code> syntax tells git to count backwards for *`n`* parents, following only first-parent links in case of merge commits.  Since 4 is one less than 5, `master~4` is necessarily one hop closer to `master` than `master~5`.  (If there are merges, the two items being merged are the same distance, hop-wise, from whatever starting point you choose, so this particular method is too simple to capture the truth.  You can start doing `master~3^2~2` for instance, but it gets quite messy.)

I'm very new to Git, and I'm trying to step through the commits from a repository.  Rather than copy and pasting the SHA's for each commit, I'm using [this method to get the next commit after the HEAD][get next rev]:

    git checkout $(git rev-list HEAD..master | tail -n 1)

This works perfectly, but I'm using it a lot so I'd like to clean up the syntax a little with an [alias][alias].  

### First Attempt

In an ideal world, a function called something like "child-sha" would return the contents of the entire lookup so it could be called like this in powershell:

    git checkout child-sha

If open up the /.config file, I can add the command by adding the following section:

    [alias]
        child-sha = $(git rev-list HEAD..master | tail -n 1)

But when I execute it, I get the following error

> Expansion of alias 'child-sha' failed; '$(git' is not a git command

### Second Attempt

Okay, so no using `$()`.  If I edit the config file as follows:

    [alias]
        child-sha = rev-list HEAD..master | tail -n 1

Then call like this:

    git checkout $(git child-sha)

Then I get the following Error

> fatal: ambiguous argument '|': unknown revision or path not in the working tree

### Third Attempt - Working, but sloppy

Okay, so no using the Pipe (`|`).  If I update my config file like this:

    git config --local alias.child-shas "rev-list HEAD..master"

Then I call like this:

    get checkout $(git child-shas | tail -n 1)

Then it works, but I haven't saved *that* much space.

I'm not really sure what each of the functions in the script are doing as I'm really new to Git and Powershell commands in general.  Google searches for the docs for using `$`, or `|` or `tail` don't reveal anything helpful as special characters are often stripped out of searches.

Is there any way to abbreviate this function?

-----

In a separate inquiry, what I'm really looking to do is just step through every checkout so I can view the entire code base at that point in time so I can setup a small demo for a presentation.  I doesn't seem as if any GUI editor ([GitHub Windows][GitHub Windows], [gitk], or [Visual Studio Tools for Git][Visual Studio Tools for Git]) easily gives you the ability to checkout a particular commit; say, for example, by right clicking through the list of commits. 


[get next rev]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3557291/1366033

[alias]: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases

[GitHub Windows]: https://windows.github.com/

[gitk]: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitk
[Visual Studio Tools for Git]: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c

Creating alias in git

You can use a [zero-width space][1] to prevent most auto-linkers from interpreting characters as a URL

Here's an example with a zero width space inserted between `https` and `:`

https​://example.com/

To insert one, you can copy from the url above or [this page][1]

See also [this thread on twitter][2]

[1]: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/zero-width-space.html
[2]: https://twitter.com/rauschma/status/992482931628302336

On a GitHub wiki page, if I type:

    www.foobar.com

GitHub automatically assumes this is a URL and makes the text a hyperlink to http://www.foobar.com. However, sometimes I do not want a hyperlink to be created. Is there a way to stop this behavior? Perhaps some sort of markdown?

How do I prevent auto-generated links in the GitHub wiki?

## Github CLI

This is now pretty easy to do via the GH CLI which takes care of all the auth stuff for you after you login.

```
gh repo list <username> --private
```

## Manual

You'll need to [create a personal access token][0], and then you can filter with `type=private`

**Unless you have more than 100 repos, you can just do this**:

```
https://api.github.com/orgs/<org>/repos?per_page=100&type=private&access_token=<token>
```

### For more than 100 Repos

If you need to traverse more than 100 repos, you'll have to use some additional scripting.  

Here's a sample in vanilla JS you can paste into your browser console

```js
let orgName = 'YOUR_ORG_NAME'
let access_token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'

let baseUrl = `https://api.github.com/orgs/${orgName}/repos`
let params = {
    type: 'private',
    page: 1,
    per_page: 10,
    access_token
}

let repos = [], json = []

do {
    let queryString = new URLSearchParams(params).toString()
    let url = `${baseUrl}?${queryString}`

    let resp = await fetch(url)
    json = await resp.json()
    
    repos.push(...json)

    params.page++

} while (json.length == params.per_page)

console.log(repos)
```

### Further Reading

* [How to clone all repos (including private repos) from GitHub?][3]
* [GH CLI - Repo List][4]
* [API - List organization repositories][1]
* [API - Pagination][2]

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token
[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#list-organization-repositories
[2]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#pagination
[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70916780/1366033
[4]: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_list

I want to get a list of all private repositories in our organisation github.  I tried - 

    curl -u user:pw -X GET  https://api.github.com/orgs/xxx/repos?per_page=100 >> list.txt 

I figure out that the **per_page**  MAX value is 100 , how can I get all our repos into one file ?

Thanks

get a list of all our private repos

### [Configuring a publishing source for GitHub Pages][1] (very limited)

While you *can* select a folder as the source for gh-pages, you can *only* do so for the `/docs` directory at the parent level, and you *still* have to actually commit the built files in order to do so, which means you'll have to override the `.gitignore` and commit them twice

<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ggDJH.png" width="313"/>

### Automated Deploy Scripts

If you're using npm, there are a couple packages that handle publishing sub-directories to gh-pages.  Install with option `--save-dev` to add it to your `devDependencies`:

* [**push-dir**][2]

    
    
        # install
        $ npm install push-dir --save-dev
        
        # usage
        $ push-dir --dir=dist --branch=gh-pages

* [**gh-pages**][3]

    
    
        # install
        $ npm install gh-pages --save-dev
        
        # usage
        $ gh-pages -d dist

In either case, if get a command line tool working for you and get it configured with the right options, you can alias it in your `package.json` like this:



    "scripts": {
      "deploy": "npm run build && gh-pages -d dist"
    }

**Further Reading**: 

* [Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages][4]
* [Deploy Vue to GitHub pages-the easy way!][5]

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-github-pages/
[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/push-dir
[3]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages
[4]: https://gist.github.com/cobyism/4730490
[5]: https://medium.com/@codetheorist/vue-up-your-github-pages-the-right-way-955486220418

I was trying to publish my -username-.github.io repository to github pages but my `index.html` is inside `dist` folder.

I cannot use `git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages` because this is meant for project pages, not user/org pages.

All I want is, github to treat dist as root directory for hosting user/org page.  Please help.Thanks

PS: I don't want to do redirection hack.


host github pages from /dist folder in master branch

According to Issue #1950 [download whole folder/directory from repository][1] on Octokit, this isn't possible given the limitations of the github API.  The best you can do is download the entire repo and parse through the files yourself:

```cs
var archiveBytes = await client.Repository.Content.GetArchive("octokit", "octokit.net", ArchiveFormat.Zipball);
```


[1]: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.net/issues/1950

I'm trying to figure out (in C#) how to download a directory with content (files and folders) in my GitHub repository through the API. Some of the articles mention Octokit.Net so i downloaded this and wrote the following lines:

    var github = new GitHubClient(new ProductHeaderValue("PROJECT"), new InMemoryCredentialStore(new Credentials("xxxtokenxxx")));
        
    var repositories =  github.Repository.GetAllForCurrent().Result;
    
    var repository = repositories.Single(x => x.Name == "MyRepo");

Well i then get the repository and it works but i'm not sure where to go from here?

How can i download Folder1 (look below) containing all files and Folder2 with files in a structure to my local hard disk?

https://github.com/PROJECT/MyRepo/tree/2016-1/Folder1/Folder2

Can anyone help me in the right direction? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

C# Download complete directory structure with subdirectories and files from GitHub (Octokit.Net)

## This is *almost* Natively Supported w/ Github CLI

1. Download [Github CLI][1]
2. Login

    ```bash
    gh auth login
    ```

3. List repos and pipe into clone command

    **Bash**

    ```bash
    gh repo list <userName> --limit 999 --json name --jq ".[]|.name" \ 
      | xargs -L1 gh repo clone
    ```

    **PowerShell**

    ```bash
    gh repo list <userName> --limit 999 --json name --jq ".[]|.name" |
       ForEach-Object { gh repo clone $_ }
    ```



**Further Reading**: [How to clone all repos at once from GitHub?][2]

[1]: https://cli.github.com/
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/19576742/1366033

I'm trying to clone all of my repos at once to my computer, all of which are private. I've tried countless one-liners and scripts (namely, the ones [here][1] and [here][2]), but none of them work.

Initially I would get errors back about JSON not being able to parse the response, which I eventually realized was because the response was empty since I had no public repos. When I made a test public repo, it would return a JSON object with the info for that specific repo, but none of the private ones. From what I understand, I need to pass both my username and an access token to GitHub, in which the access token was generated at `Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens`.

I've tried both of the following formats to no avail:

    curl -i -u [[USERNAME]]:[[TOKEN]] -s https://api.github.com/users/[[USERNAME]]/repos?per_page=100 [[...]]

    curl -i -u [[USERNAME]] -s https://api.github.com/users/[[USERNAME]]/repos?per_page=100&access_token=[[TOKEN]] [[...]]

The `[[...]]` part that follows is various code snippets like the ones in the links above. I believe these parts are fine, as they clone public repos without any issues, and rather the issue lies in me not being able to see my private repos despite having an access token. It is important to note that when you generate the access token, you define the scopes for what it can do, and I've defined mine with full access to everything, including `repo`, which should grant it control over private repos.

Additionally, sometimes when I would try the command above, I would get the following response:

     HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
    Server: GitHub.com
    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:08:01 GMT
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Content-Length: 93
    Status: 401 Unauthorized
    X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.v3; format=json
    X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
    X-RateLimit-Remaining: 41
    X-RateLimit-Reset: 1507884238
    Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval
    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
    Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: deny
    X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
    X-Runtime-rack: 0.060685
    X-GitHub-Request-Id: D038:4E67:1349CC:2CB494:59E07461
    
    {
      "message": "Bad credentials",
      "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3"
    }
Despite knowing that my credentials are just fine.

Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong for me? I've been running circles around this for hours and have come up empty.


  [1]: https://gist.github.com/caniszczyk/3856584
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19576742/how-to-clone-all-repos-at-once-from-github

How to clone all repos (including private repos) from GitHub?

If you get a message like this using the [**GitHub extension by KnisterPeter**][0]:

> To enable the Visual Studio Code GitHub Support, please set a Personal Access Token
>
> [![Enable Visual Studio Code GitHub Support][1]][1]


1. Go to *Settings* &rarr; *Developer Settings* &rarr; *Personal Access Token*

   Or go directly to *https://github.com/settings/tokens*

2. Click **Generate New Token**

   [![Settings -> Generate New Token][2]][2]

3. Go back to Visual Studio Code and open the *Command Palette* (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>P</kbd>)

4. Type in **GitHub: Set Personal Access Token**

   [![Set Personal Access Token][3]][3]

5. Paste in the value from your newly generated token

  [0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=KnisterPeter.vscode-github
  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/e5kof.png
  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/h0SJX.png
  [3]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUg7f.png





I received [an email][1] saying GitHub will require token authentication after August 13 2021. I want to ensure I don't have an interruption of service (push/pull) after this date.
So I logged into GitHub and [created a token][2] for my single repository.

Now I want to use the token to push/pull my repository from GitHub, in Visual Studio Code, which uses Git and the command line, which I have installed on my Mac.

What do I do to add/replace the password from GitHub with the generated token I just created to push/pull from my repository? Can I do it from Visual Studio Code or does it get added from the terminal command line?

  [1]: https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/
  [2]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token


