From c6790fce9a5efa19bd5c3e54c92eeeb7bd5474bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lukaesque Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:52:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarifying who can see private repositories (#803) I think that for someone just reading through the docs seeing "If you do not want **anyone** (apart from your fellow collaborators) to see your repositories" can very much sound like they're stored with "zero-knowledge", while finding the details in Codeberg's privacy policy is quite simple, there's no harm in making it clear in the docs as well. Co-authored-by: Robert Wolff Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/pulls/803 Reviewed-by: Robert Wolff --- content/collaborating/repo-permissions.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/collaborating/repo-permissions.md b/content/collaborating/repo-permissions.md index ea4dec9..8fbf745 100644 --- a/content/collaborating/repo-permissions.md +++ b/content/collaborating/repo-permissions.md @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ You can assign teams different levels of permission for each unit (e.g. issues, The visibility of your repositories will depend on the visibility of your profile, as well as whether you have marked a repository as private. Let's break down what this means: -- If your profile's visibility is set to "Limited", _all_ of your non-private repositories will only be visible to logged +- If your profile's visibility is set to "**Limited**", _all_ of your non-private repositories will only be visible to logged in users. -- If your profile's visibility is set to "Public", _all_ of your non-private repositories will be shown to everyone. +- If your profile's visibility is set to "**Public**", _all_ of your non-private repositories will be shown to everyone. - If you do not want anyone (apart from [your fellow collaborators](https://docs.codeberg.org/collaborating/invite-collaborators/)) - to see your repositories, mark your repository as "Private". + to see your repositories, mark your repository as "**Private**". + However, Codeberg's Moderation Team and infrastructure administrators can access private profiles and repositories as per the + [Privacy Policy](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/PrivacyPolicy.md#4-data-handling-by-association-bodies-third-parties). The visibility of your profile can be changed in the [Privacy settings](https://codeberg.org/user/settings). Be careful when you set your profile's visibility to "Limited"; Even if a repository is public, users that are