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Collaborators

A collaborator is another user on your git-shark instance whom you grant read and write access to one of your repositories. There is one flat collaborator role — no permission levels, no teams. Adding a collaborator takes effect immediately; there is no invitation to accept.

Only the repository owner can see and manage a repository's collaborators.

What a collaborator can do​

  • Read the repository — browse it in the web UI and clone/fetch it over HTTP and SSH, including when the repository is private.
  • Push over HTTP and SSH.
  • Open and manage issues and merge requests, and moderate merge-request review comments, just like the owner.

A collaborator can not:

  • Delete the repository.
  • Manage push mirrors.
  • Add or remove collaborators — granting access stays with the owner.

Adding a collaborator​

  1. Open your repository's Settings page (the ⚙ Settings tab in the left sidebar, owner only) and click Manage collaborators (it opens …/settings/collaborators).
  2. Enter the user's exact username (the handle used in their profile URLs — there is no search or autocomplete) and click Add.

The page tells you when the username doesn't exist, the user is already a collaborator, or you tried to add yourself.

Only local users can be added — collaborators from other federated instances are not supported.

Removing a collaborator​

On the same page, click Remove next to the collaborator. Their read and write access ends immediately; on a private repository they lose all access.