Give permissions on project folder in github

Question

I have 10 main folders in this project I want to give access to the external team just in one sub-folder in my git repository so that they can make changes and submit a Pull Request.

Is there a way of doing it? If not, can you please suggest a better way?

Answer 1

There is no such access-rights-mechanism implemented on GitHub repositories out of the box.

Using a submodule

Using a submodule does the trick, and is pretty much easy to set up. You can give the customers full access to the submodule repository, while you add it to your main project repository.

Note that the StackOverflow question "Using someone else's repo as a Git Submodule on GitHub" and its answer are also worth reading.

This is in my opinion the most simple and straightforward way to do it.

Using a webhook

If you really don't want to use submodules, you can still restrict access rights by creating a GitHub webhook that implements this mechanism. The Git SCM documentation explains how to do that part.