GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

Difference between Members and Outside collaborators

As the name suggests, outside collaborators are non-organization members with repository access. Much like you can give write access to another user in your personal repository, you can give them write access to individual organizational repositories without being members.

At present, no one outside our organization has access to a repository. If you visit Outside collaborators under the People tab, GitHub will tell you that there are no collaborators yet:

Let's add an outside collaborator by going to a repository's Settings in the Collaborators & teams tab:

After selecting the user, hit ...