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GitHub Overview

You can use the GitHub Overview tab to view your GitHub repository metadata, statistics, and quick links, and to make the repository public or private.

Open GitHub Overview

To open the tab, click DevOps > GitHub Overview. When more than one remote is on a supported Git host, the DevOps menu lists those remotes under Sources. Point to the remote and click GitHub Overview. The tab title then includes the remote name, for example GitHub Overview (upstream).

The top of the GitHub Overview tab shows the following information.

  • Repository name: The owner and the name of the repository.
  • Visibility badge: Private or Public.
  • Stars: The number of stars the repository has.
  • Forks: The number of forks the repository has.
  • Open Issues: The number of open issues in the repository.
  • Open PRs: The number of open pull requests in the repository.

Below this, the GitHub Overview tab has the Languages, Repository Info, Topics, Visibility, and Open in Browser sections. To close or open a section, click its heading. Zide remembers the sections that you close and keeps them closed in the GitHub Overview tab of every project.

Languages

If the repository has content, the Languages section lists the languages that its files are written in, with the percentage of each.

Repository Info

The Repository Info section lists the following information about the repository.

  • Default Branch: The default branch of the repository.
  • License: The license of the repository.
  • Created: The creation date of the repository.
  • Last Push: The date of the last push to the repository.
  • Disk Usage: The amount of storage space that the repository uses.

Topics

The Topics section shows the topics applied to the repository. To add a topic, click + Add in the Topics section. Enter the topic name in the topic-name field and click Add.

Topic names must be lowercase and contain no spaces.

Visibility

The Visibility section tells who can see the repository. When the section is closed, its heading shows the current visibility.

To change the visibility, complete the following steps.

  1. In the Visibility section, click Make Public or Make Private.
  2. Read the consequences in the dialog. To make the repository public, type its full name, for example owner/repository.
  3. Click Make Public or Make Private in the dialog.

Zide updates the GitHub Overview tab, the visibility in the window title, and the project’s access. If your Zide plan does not include private repositories, making the repository private locks the project. The dialog tells you before you confirm.

Only repository admins can change the visibility. Members with write or maintain access see the buttons unavailable, with the reason. An archived repository must be unarchived first. Forks and internal repositories have no Visibility section, because GitHub does not let you change them between private and public.

If GitHub does not accept the change, for example because your organization allows only owners to change visibility, the Visibility section shows the reason. The visibility does not change.

Open in Browser

The Open in Browser section links to the repository’s pages on GitHub: Repository, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Security, and Settings. The GitHub Docs link opens GitHub’s documentation for help with GitHub itself, rather than a page in your repository.

Click a link, or select it and press Enter, to open the page. By default, it opens in the built-in Web Browser tab.

If your GitHub account is not connected, or the repository details cannot load, the tab shows the reason and the Open in Browser section without the Security and Settings links.