Custom properties

Custom properties allow you to add structured metadata to repositories and organizations, enabling better organization, governance, and automation across your GitHub environment.

Quem pode usar esse recurso?

Repository custom properties can be managed by organization owners and users with admin permissions to the repository. Organization custom properties can be managed by enterprise owners and users with the "Manage the Enterprise's custom properties definitions" permission.

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What are custom properties?

Custom properties are structured metadata fields that you can attach to repositories or organizations in sua instância do GitHub Enterprise Server. 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.

How do I add and manage custom properties?

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.