GitHub Ownership Transfer
This is a quick guide on transferring ownership of a GitHub repository. For this tutorial, we will be using the ericearl/dataset-phenotypes repository and transferring ownership over to the nimh-dsst GitHub organization. By the end of reading this, you should know the appropriate steps to take to transfer ownership of a repository and continue to maintain the repository.
Step 1: Go to the existing repository you want to transfer ownership
Go to the existing repository on GitHub from which you'd like to transfer ownership somewhere else.
Step 2: Go to the Danger Zone
Click on the Settings tab. This will take you to the repository's General settings page. Way down at the bottom of the page, you will see a Danger Zone section.
Step 3: Go to the transfer repository page
Under the Transfer ownership section click on the Transfer button. This will pop up a Transfer repository page.
Step 4: Confirm you're ready to transfer ownership
Under the New owner section you can use the Select one of my organizations radio button's drop-down option to select the organization to which you'd like to transfer the repository. Then type into the bottom text box the current owner and name of the repository as it instructs right there to confirm you're ready to transfer ownership.
Step 5: Confirm your access
Click the I understand, transfer this repository. button. A Confirm access modal dialog will appear where you have to confirm it's you somehow. I use Google Authenticator which is why the below screenshot shows that. This will transfer the repository to the organization you selected.
Step 6: Small notice
After confirming access, GitHub will take you back to your homepage and notify you about the time it might take to migrate things.
Step 7: Update any local repositories
Inform your contributors to update their git remote URLs to the new repository to avoid confusion.
git remote set-url origin NEW_URL
For instance, the NEW_URL for the example in this tutorial is git@github.com:nimh-dsst/dataset-phenotypes.git so the command I used was:
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:nimh-dsst/dataset-phenotypes.git
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That's it! Good luck not missing any typing or clicking. If you still want to read more about this, you can read GitHub's official guide here: Transferring a repository.
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