Starting Your Own OSS in GitHub: Making a Repository Public

At this point, your repository has the basic items it needs to go public. To change a repository from private to public:

  1. Visit the Settings page for your repository.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the Settings page to reach the Danger Zone, as shown in Figure 10-5.

  1. Click the Make public button to initiate making a repository public.

This step is a potentially dangerous operation because you may inadvertently expose information to the world you’d rather keep private. So make sure you really are ready to make this repository public. If you created it with the intention of making it public from the beginning, the repository shouldn’t contain any secrets.

GitHub displays a confirmation dialog after you click the Make public button asking you to type the name of the repository to confirm this change, as seen in Figure 10-6.

  1. Type the repository name and then click the I understand, make this repository public button to make the repository public.

Thee setting page now has a section that will come in handy as you manage your new open source project.

Source: Guthals Sarah, Haack Phil (2019), GitHub for Dummies, Wiley.

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