Do you limit who gets admin access to repositories?

Last updated by Matt Wicks [SSW] 9 months ago.See history

Increasing a member's permissions also increases the amount of damage they can do. As a good rule of thumb, only give members the access that they need to complete their work. e.g. You do not want developers to have force-push permissions on the main branch, as they might accidentally delete branches and code by mistake!

💡 Tip: GitHub has a role called "Maintainer" which is like an Admin but without the destructive powers

⚠️ Note: If you are still using Azure DevOps, force-push permissions into a repo is only allowed for Project Administrators, so pick your administrators well.

See GitHub docs Repository permission levels for an organization

tooManyAdmins
Bad Example: All members are Admins

notManyAdmins
Good Example: Most users have push access, some can maintain the repo

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