How to Allow Others to Work on Your Repo in GitHub

If there are multiple collaborators and you want others to work on your repository, you could always invite them as a collaborator. Github allows you to do that using the Manage Access Option. We are going to see how to allow others to work on your repo in GitHub.

On many occasions, access rights are generally dealt with by organizations. In those cases, you have to write to the concerned department to give you access to repos.

But sometimes, when you have created the repo yourself, you are the owner of the repository. You can give access to people to make changes in your code, etc.

Let us take a look at how to allow others to work on your repo in GitHub.

Steps on How to Allow Others to Work on Your Repo in GitHub

This tutorial assumes that the person you are trying to give access to already has a GitHub account.

Step 1: If you are on your GitHub Repo page, you must be already seeing the option of Settings. Click on the button:

Step 2: Click on Manage Access tab available on the left side panel as shown in the image below:

Step 3: The next screen is the place from where you can add or invite collaborators to work on your code. The green button that you see can below says invite a collaborator. Just click on that.

Step 4: In the dialog box that pops up next, type the name of the collaborator you want to allow access for. You can also use their username or email Id.

When you start typing in the box, remember you might get a lot of suggestions. It is better you ask for the exact username of that person or email Id, something to identify him properly.

Step 5: Once you select a username, you will notice that the green box below becomes available for clicking.

Click on the green button that says “Add <NAME> to this repository.

That’s it!

The next screen will take you back to the Step 3 page, where the invited username will begin to show in the manage access list.

The invited user will then get a notification related to your invite. Once the user allows to have access from his/her end, they will be able to make changes in the code now.

That’s all there is to learn in this tutorial.

Make sure you check out our renaming origin branch tutorial as well for Git.