How to give admin access to collaborator on personal repository

[wolfy1339]

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I'd like to give admin access to a collaborator I added to my personal repository, however there is no option to do so, that I can find.

In the past, you could assign admin rights to collaborators on repositories, but now I can't seem to do it.

Has this feature been removed?

[muizzhaque]

In GitHub, the ability to assign roles, including admin access, depends on whether the repository is part of a personal account or an organization.

For personal repositories, you can add collaborators and give them write access, but you cannot assign admin rights(https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/managing-teams-and-people-with-access-to-your-repository). This means they can pull and push to the repository, but they cannot perform administrative actions like managing collaborators or deleting the repository.

For organization repositories, you can assign more granular roles, including admin access(https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/repository-roles-for-an-organization). The roles for an organization repository are:

Read: Recommended for non-code contributors who want to view or discuss your project.
Triage: Recommended for contributors who need to proactively manage issues, discussions, and pull requests without write access.
Write: Recommended for contributors who actively push to your project.
Maintain: Recommended for project managers who need to manage the repository without access to sensitive or destructive actions.
Admin: Recommended for people who need full access to the project, including sensitive and destructive actions like managing security or deleting a repository(https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/repository-roles-for-an-organization).
If you need to give someone admin access to a repository in your personal account, you might consider transferring the repository to an organization. This would allow you to assign admin rights to other users. Please note that this is a significant action and should be done carefully.

I hope this was helpful ✌️

[wolfy1339]

Well that is really annoying... This is a feature that would really have been helpful in my case.
And what makes it even more annoying is this is a feature that used to exist.

I am trying to transfer my personal repository to an organization of which I do not have user permissions to transfer the repository, with the help of one of the admins of the org. It would have been simple if I could simply add them as an admin and they could transfer the repository

[muizzhaque]

True, hope they add this feature into github

[henkbirkholz]

I admit that limiting access to the settings tab on a user's repo has stalled a lot of support work community members were doing. I get that you can use organizations for this type of collab - and removing the feature steers you towards that strategy... but is very pretty much annoying, tbh.

[AlanDorn]

Also wishing they would add this back.

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