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Can I convert a private build to public now that the repo is public?

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Chris Rummel

23 Apr, 2015 10:16 PM

I am a member of a GitHub organization that had a private repo that we have now made public, but the Appveyor build still shows as private. I canceled my paid Appveyor plan now that we only have a public repo and I get an error when trying to kick off a build: "Projects with private repositories are not allowed on Free plan. Purchase plan to build projects with private repositories."
But the repo is no longer private. Is there any alternative to deleting and re-creating the project and losing the build history?

Thanks,
Chris

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 23 Apr, 2015 10:34 PM

   

   Hi Chris,

   Open General tab of project settings and change repo name to some other you own, save, then update the repo to original value. If it doesn't do a trick we could update it from here.

   - Feodor

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2. 2 Posted by Chris Rummel on 24 Apr, 2015 04:01 PM

   

   Thanks, that fixed it!

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3. 3 Posted by Christian Gonza... on 18 Jan, 2017 06:56 PM

   

   Are these instructions up to date? I tried to do this for a repository that changed from private to public and it doesn't seem to be working.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 18 Jan, 2017 08:11 PM

   

   Have you tried to just re-save the project?

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5. 5 Posted by Christian Gonza... on 21 Jan, 2017 02:27 AM

   

   I tried saving the repository under project -> settings save, but it didn’t seem to work. It still says private next to my project on AppVeyor.

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6. 6 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 21 Jan, 2017 02:44 AM

   

   Did you first try to change repo name to some other you own, then save as suggested initially?

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7. 7 Posted by Christian Gonza... on 21 Jan, 2017 03:55 AM

   

   I did, it doesn't appear to work for me. I changed the URL and the name.

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8. 8 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 21 Jan, 2017 09:27 PM

   

   Could you please drop a link to that project? If you don't feel comfortable to do it in the forum, please feel free to send it to [email blocked] and add link to this discussion too.

   Ilya.

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9. 9 Posted by Christian Gonza... on 21 Jan, 2017 09:35 PM

   

   https://ci.appveyor.com/project/thomabr/sourcemap-toolkit
   Github repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/sourcemap-toolkit/

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10. 10 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 24 Jan, 2017 02:47 AM

    

    Hi Christian,

    It do not work for you because repository type is set as Git, not GitHub in AppVeyor. We made it public manually. However I would recommend to re-create project using GitHub repository type as you are missing a lot of other source control integration features.

    Ilya.

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11. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:14 AM.