Creating custom properties for repositories in your enterprise

Create and apply custom properties to categorize and manage repositories across your enterprise.

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Custom properties allow you to decorate your repositories with information such as compliance frameworks, data sensitivity, or project details. Custom properties are private and can only be viewed by people with read permissions to the repository. An enterprise can have up to 100 property definitions. An allowed value list can have up to 200 items.

Defining custom properties at the enterprise level allows you to create consistent values that users can apply to repositories. With custom properties in place, you can apply consistent governance across repositories in your enterprise by creating a ruleset or repository policy targeting repositories with certain properties.

Allowed characters

Die Namen und Werte benutzerdefinierter Eigenschaften dürfen nur bestimmte Zeichen enthalten:

  • Namen: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _, -, $, #.
  • Werte: Alle druckbaren ASCII-Zeichen außer ".

Who can set and view values for custom properties I define?

After you define a custom property, users can set a value for that property in repositories in the enterprise. See Verwalten von benutzerdefinierten Eigenschaften für Repositorys in Ihrer Organisation.

  • As an enterprise owner, you can set a default value for required properties.
  • Organization owners can set values in their organization, either across repositories or at the repository level.
  • If enabled, people with repository access, or the custom properties fine-grained permission, can set and update the property value for their repository.

People with read permissions to a repository can view the custom property values for that repository.

Additionally, organization owners can search for repositories in their organization by custom property values. See Verwalten von benutzerdefinierten Eigenschaften für Repositorys in Ihrer Organisation.

Adding custom properties

You can add custom properties to your enterprise to make those properties available in all of your organizations.

  1. Klicke auf GitHub in der oberen rechten Ecke auf dein Profilbild.
  2. Klicke je nach deiner Umgebung auf Dein Unternehmenoder auf Deine Unternehmen, und klicke dann auf das Unternehmen, das du anzeigen möchtest.
  3. In the left sidebar, under "Policies", click Custom properties.
  4. To add a new custom property, in the upper-right corner, click New property.
  5. Enter a name, description, and type for the custom property. The name must be unique across all of your organizations, and cannot contain spaces.
  6. Optionally, select Allow repository actors to set this property. When enabled, repository users and apps with the repository-level custom properties fine-grained permission will be able to set and update the property value for their repository. Additionally, any actor creating a repository can set the property on the repository.
  7. Optionally, select Require this property for all repositories and add a default value. This means that you require that all repositories in your enterprise have a value for this property. Repositories that don’t have an explicit value for this property will inherit the default value.
  8. Click Save property.

Next steps

Apply policies to repositories based on their custom properties. See Defining policies for repositories in your enterprise.