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Is it possible to use private git as customers support forum? #21532

Answered by nadiajoyce
danyj asked this question in New to GitHub
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@danyj This isn’t something that GitHub offers as a feature at this time. It’s something that you *might* be able to implement with a lot of API work, which is something you might have more help with over on the Platform Forum. That said, there are a lot of potential complications with this. Two of the big ones that come to mind are: 

  • Every customer you have would have to have a GitHub account already in order to access and use that private repository
  • If the private repository you’re trying to direct them to exists in an organization account, you’d end up paying for a seat every time a customer got access to that private repository

All in all, I think this is a really great idea, but it…

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