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Organize respositories in different Subfolders/Categories in GitHub Desktop #24091
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Hi Everybody, I got a question to the community. I have my own git on my webserver with quite a lot of repositories on it. |
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Welcome @A320-Daniel! GitHub Desktop will categorize any non-GitHub repositories under At this time we do not have the option to create custom repository groups, but this is something that has been previously requested (see this issue for an example and this issue for broader repository list efforts). At this time we don’t have any plans to make changes to repository organization, but this will likely be something we reconsider again in the future. Thanks for the feedback about this. |
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I thins this is a must-have feature when we have multiple products and clients and many repos. Why ignoring the feature? |
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I too believe that It's a must have |
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I also think this is a must-have. On GitHub as well as GitLab I have all my projects nicely organized by which client they're for, what overarching project they're part of, whether they're general purpose-utilities, or if they're personal projects. On the GitHub desktop client, it's a jumbled mess of all projects haphazardly thrown into whether they're on GitHub or not. Those categories are not useful. I can somewhat work around this by removing repositories that I haven't used in a while locally, but even so I still have multiple projects running in parallel. Not to mention that doing this is adding significant overhead to my workflow, particularly for small maintenance-related changes. It's becoming a serious usability issue for me. The two categories are fine if you have maybe a dozen projects and see all of them on-screen at once, but for any more than that it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate. The only somewhat saving grace here is the Recents category. I'd expect a piece of software as mature as GitHub Desktop to have this functionality. I fail to understand how it's possible that this wasn't a priority up to this point. |
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Welcome @A320-Daniel!
GitHub Desktop will categorize any non-GitHub repositories under
Other. A non-GitHub repository is classified as a local repository that does not have a remote repository on GitHub or a repository that is hosted on a non-GitHub hosting service (like GitLab).At this time we do not have the option to create custom repository groups, but this is something that has been previously requested (see this issue for an example and this issue for broader repository list efforts). At this time we don’t have any plans to make changes to repository organization, but this will likely be something we reconsider again in the future. Thanks for the feedback about this.