How I can restore my persnoal repository that I deleted a week ago?

[stayForward09]

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Hello Github team and guys.
I tried to restore repository that I deleted a week ago, it was my own personal repository, never forked.
When I go to settings to restore option, it says "These repositories were deleted, but can't be restored by you. Contact support if you want to restore them."

Can you pls help me how to restore this repo?
Thanks!

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[amiriguesss]

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Hello Github team and guys. I tried to restore repository that I deleted a week ago, it was my own personal repository, never forked. When I go to settings to restore option, it says "These repositories were deleted, but can't be restored by you. Contact support if you want to restore them."

Can you pls help me how to restore this repo? Thanks!

Hey, there
I think you cant really, there is no such an option to get your deleted repo back, github even asks multiple times if you are sure what you are doing when trying to delete a repo that you own, So that's why

[kurupdevs]

Good news: deleted repositories aren't gone immediately. GitHub keeps deleted repos recoverable for 90 days, and a repo deleted a week ago is well within that window — so yes, yours can still be restored.

For a personal repository there's no self-service restore button (the Deleted repositories restore option lives under organization settings, for org-owned repos). Instead, contact GitHub Support and ask them to restore it — give them the repository name and your account name. They can usually bring it back with its issues, pull requests, and wiki intact.

Just don't wait too long: after 90 days the deletion becomes permanent.

[2171001]

If the repository was deleted only a week ago and it was owned by your personal account, it should normally still be within GitHub's 90-day restoration window.

You can check:

Settings → Repositories → Deleted repositories

GitHub says personal repositories can generally be restored from there within 90 days.

However, if GitHub specifically shows “These repositories were deleted, but can't be restored by you”, then the repository may have a restoration restriction, such as being part of a fork network. In that case, you'll need to contact GitHub Support and provide the repository name/URL and the exact error message.

GitHub's documentation:
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/restoring-a-deleted-repository

Since you've already checked the restoration page and are seeing that message, I'd contact GitHub Support rather than trying to recreate the repository with the same name.