Can anyone see my projects on Github?

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Personal greetings I'm starting there with the concepts of GitHub and would like to know when I put my project there it is accessible for all people with the option to download.

If yes,      Is there a way to remove this download option?

If not: That's the only thing I would like to know, thank you.

    
asked by anonymous 03.10.2016 / 15:26

3 answers

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It depends, you can have private projects and prevent others from accessing it. If you use the free plan, you will not be able to prevent them from viewing your source or downloading it.

GitHub has these two options

  • Public projects : anyone can view, fork and download the source code.
  • Private Projects : Only the users you release will have access to the code.
  • Private projects are only available in paid plans, which range from $ 7 to $ 21 a month on the date of this response.

    You can still get an account with unlimited private repositories while you are a student with GitHub Student Developer Pack .

    There are some alternatives in the market, the best known being Atlassian's BitBucket . It has basically the same functions as GitHub, but you can create private projects in the free plan, as long as it does not have more than 5 users.

    You also have GitLab that you can have private unlimited projects as well as > has no user limit .

    I'm not going to give you much more detail about the tools because it does not suit, as well as this is a question about a question about GitHub.

        
    03.10.2016 / 15:29
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    Hello, github projects like our friend explained above are only released public repositories for free accounts. If you are not interested in acquiring a private plan, I would suggest exploring the gitlab tool ( link ), which integrates with git normally and you can create a private project, the difference is the space limit if I'm not mistaken, but even so, it is much more advantageous, it is worth knowing the tool!

    I hope it helps.

        
    03.10.2016 / 17:58
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    As github is a community created for the open source public by default the free account makes your project visible to everyone who has access to the site, but to have your account private you have to hire a paid plan within the site.

        
    06.02.2018 / 11:46