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Working across organizations with Github apps #24549

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We’ve double-checked this with the team working on GitHub Apps and – you’re right. For the case that you described (making a pull request between a private fork and parent) will not work if you’re doing it as a GitHub App. The reason is as you guessed – a single installation has access to repositories only from a specific user or organization, and a pull request between a private fork and parent requires access from two organizations. I’ve opened an internal issue to see if there is a way to support this after all, but even if that’s possible – I’m guessing it won’t happen very quickly since permissions are never a trivial thing to implement.

Other cases (pull requests between public fork…

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