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.
注意
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 创建组织中存储库的规则集 and 管理企业中仓库的自定义属性.
- For organization custom rules, see 管理企业中存储库的代码规则集.
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 自定义属性.
You can add custom properties through GitHub's UI. See 管理组织中存储库的自定义属性 and Managing custom properties for organizations.