About repository archival
Note: If you have a legacy per-repository billing plan, you will still be charged for your archived repository. If you don't want to be charged for an archived repository, you must upgrade to a new product. For more information, see "GitHub's products."
We recommend that you close all issues and pull requests, as well as update the README file and description, before you archive a repository.
Once a repository is archived, you cannot add or remove collaborators or teams. Contributors with access to the repository can only fork or star your project.
When a repository is archived, its issues, pull requests, code, labels, milestones, projects, wiki, releases, commits, tags, branches, reactions, code scanning alerts, comments and permissions become read-only. To make changes in an archived repository, you must unarchive the repository first.
You can search for archived repositories. For more information, see "Searching for repositories." You can also search for issues and pull requests within archived repositories. For more information, see "Searching issues and pull requests."
Archiving a repository
We recommend that you close all issues and pull requests, as well as update the README file and description, before you archive a repository.
- On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository.
- Under your repository name, click
Settings.
- Under "Danger Zone", click Archive this repository or Unarchive this repository.
- Read the warnings.
- Type the name of the repository you want to archive or unarchive.
- Click I understand the consequences, archive this repository.
