What are custom properties?
Custom properties are structured metadata fields that you can attach to repositories or organizations in GitHub.com. They allow you to decorate your repositories or organizations with information such as compliance frameworks, data sensitivity, or project details.
An enterprise can have up to 100 property definitions. An allowed value list can have up to 200 items.
There are two types of custom properties:
- Repository custom properties: Metadata attached to individual repositories.
- Organization custom properties: Metadata attached to organizations within an enterprise.
Observação
Organization custom properties are in public preview and subject to change. For GitHub Enterprise Server, this feature will only be available from version 3.22.
What are the benefits of using custom properties?
As well as providing improved discovery, automated workflows, compliance tracking, targeted policy enforcement, and better reporting capabilities, custom properties enable powerful governance through ruleset integration.
Both repository and organization custom properties can be used as targeting criteria for rulesets, enabling fine-grained policy enforcement based on metadata.
- For repository custom rules, see Criar conjuntos de regras para repositórios na sua organização and Gerenciando propriedades personalizadas para repositórios em sua empresa.
- For organization custom rules, see Gerenciando conjuntos de regras de código para repositórios em sua empresa.
How do I add and manage custom properties?
Custom properties are fully supported through GitHub's REST API, enabling programmatic management and integration with external systems. See Propriedades personalizadas.
You can add custom properties through GitHub's UI. See Como gerenciar propriedades personalizadas para repositórios na sua organização and Managing custom properties for organizations.