Organization Members, Commits, Pull requests, Discussions and Wiki - What happens to them when changing repository visibility

[shoulders]

Code of Conduct

• I have read and agree to the GitHub Docs project's Code of Conduct

What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/setting-repository-visibility

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

In the individual sections relating to what actually changes when you change visibility, I would like to see information on what happens to the following features:

• Organization Members
• Member limits (eg public repos have unlimited members)
• Commits
• Pull requests
• Wiki
• Discussions

It is important to cover all of these main topics so the admin that is doing the changes, knows the ramifications.

The sections for reference are as follows and under Consequences of changing a repository's visibility

• Changing from public to private
• Changing from private to public
• Changing from private to internal
• Changing from internal to private
• Changing from internal to public
• Changing from public to internal

Even if there are not changes to the feature, then there should be a line saying no changes.

Additional information

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[Sharra-writes]

@shoulders Thanks for opening this issue! I'll get it triaged for review.

[Sharra-writes]

@shoulders This is probably more a question for our support team, at least as an initial matter of finding out what changes/doesn't change. If they give you answers you would like to see included in the docs, this would absolutely be the place to discuss those changes. The problem for us is that the Docs team is small and we aren't the best suited to searching out answers for more in-depth questions like this, so we usually refer those to support. I'm going to close this for now, but it can always be reopened later, or the discussion can happen in a new issue.