Hi @jayantadeb73 ,

Did your friend, who you invited, try to:

1. Log in with their account
2. Manually navigate to your private repo

If the invite got sent out well, a screen to accept the invite should appear.

Also check the junk folder in the mailbox! Post back if it didn’t work.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply.

As mentioned two steps in below mail, i can follow the first one, but unable to follow 2nd one (as you know i am very new in GitHub).

It will be nice if you can let me know the how to ‘manually navitate’ to my private repo from my friend’s account.

Sorry to bother you.

Thanks with Regards,

JD

No problem @jayantadeb73 , I should have explained it better!

Normally, the URL of a repository would be github.com/<username>/<repo name>. If I were to navigate to a private repository by typing it manually in the address bar, I’d get a 404. However, if I am invited to that private repository I should  get a screen where I can accept the invite.

So, if your repo is called test , first invite your friend as a collaborator, then let him sign into that account and let him navigate to github.com/Jayantadeb73/test  (make sure to replace the repo name!).

Let us know how it goes!

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for such a excellent explanation regarding ‘navigate to private repo’; but unfortunately didn’t work as expected.

Now, what i did, i have created another reposiroty, this time as private - (earlier one was public for which i have already sent invitation, which didn’t work, even after followed your instruction) -  and sent invitation for this private repository.

Now one again followed your instruction and this time worked  as per expectation… my friend can see the invitation which he has accepted.

Now here i have couple of queries:

1. why the invitation didn’t work for public repo, but work for private. 

2. even for ‘private repo’ it wokrs after followed your insrutction, but why he has not received any notification in his github account. but received the invitation mail.

3. and finally I am not able to provide the access rights (admin, read, write), not getting option even fot this… 

Looking for you kind reply.

Thanks with Regards,

JD

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your great support. This was my first conversation in GitHub account and you made it special. Once again thanks for all your answers.

Definitely i will look into all those matters, mentioned by you and let you know if any hurdles come.

Thanks with Rergards 

JD