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We have a situation where we need external contractors to do some work on a project but would like to restrict them to a certain branch on our (private) repository and manage the merging of this branch into the release branches ourselves. Is there a way of restricting users to a single branch of a repository?

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  • Very much possible with a private repo using gitolite. Gitolite exactly offers this. But I'm not sure about this on github. Did you try contacting the github support people? – positron May 28 '12 at 08:36
  • not possible with github in its current state - however it is indeed possible with gitolite like @positron said. if you're going to need that on a regular basis, you could also look at a local installation of gitlab - gitlabhq.com (runs well on a small 512MB RAM VPS, even though it's in RoR) – damianb May 28 '12 at 15:40

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Ask that person to fork the project and submit pull request when merging.

Note that their fork will be private, even if their github account is on a free plan.

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  • I need to do the same thing, having an intern work on a single branch of our private repo. I made a test account to try and request a fork of our private repo, but I don't see how to do this. Any pointers? – Kevin_TA Apr 13 '15 at 20:33
  • @Kevin_TA: You may want to take a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9629538/if-i-fork-someone-elses-private-github-repo-into-my-account-is-it-going-to-app – nhahtdh Apr 14 '15 at 08:09