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Is there a way to make repository which is partly private? For me it is a common use-case where some data aren't share for any reason (e.g. because they are not
by stared 14y ago
Is there a way to make repository which is partly private?
For me it is a common use-case where some data aren't share for any reason (e.g. because they are not checked yet whether they are correct), while other files are public?
- twog 14y agoNot currently, but this is a great idea. We may just have to add this to the roadmap
- songgao 14y agoThe other thing is that, IMHO, private repo for this is not good for academic, instead, make it temporarily private. People write papers to get published. They surely want as many people as possible to see it. The reason they want it to be private is to hide it from others before getting published so the ideas won't get stolen. So I'm thinking maybe set up a time limit for repos being private would be better? After that time limit, the repo is automatically made public unless requested more time by user.
- stared 14y agoIt is one reason. But e.g. in my field (theoretical physics) I am not afraid of theft (well, if someone is smart enough to understand and polish a half-written paper, then (s)he can write much better stuff) but of things that "as of now makes sense only to me" or "there are half-written" (e.g. in some places I changed indices i to i+1, but not in all, making it both frustrating and useless to read) or may simply be false and I don't want to publish it before checking (e.g. plots may be completely wrong because of a typo). Anyway, a time limit is a good idea. And anyway, when there are timestamps, it's harder to steal an idea. It actually may encourage people to write notes on things to do, share some partial proofs, etc
- saraid216 14y agoWhy a time limit? Why not a "publish" button that flips it to public? (And maybe submits it to arXiv at the same time, optionally.)