REST API: Add support for repository management policies

[stevehipwell]

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GitHub recently added support for repository management policies and I'd like to be able to manage these via the REST API.

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[jfullstackdev]

if I'm not mistaken, at the moment, repository management policies are not available in the REST API

they are only exposed through the GraphQL API, and only if your organization is on GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise governance objects in GraphQL let you inspect and enforce policies such as repository creation restrictions and naming rules, but these fields aren’t available in REST yet

so yes, the only way is to file a request or you have that Enterprise

[stevehipwell]

@patrick-knight as you made the original announcement could you please respond to this request? Given the recent related functionality (custom properties & rulesets stand out) is available in the REST API the omission of these endpoints doesn't quite make sense.

[patrick-knight]

These are available as part of the org/enterprise REST API for rulesets:
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/orgs/rules?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-an-organization-repository-ruleset

So you can do something like this:

curl -L \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/YOURSLUG/rulesets \
  -d '{
  "name": "policy-one",
  "target": "repository",
  "source_type": "Organization",
  "source": "YOURSLUG",
  "enforcement": "active",
  "conditions": {
    "repository_property": {
      "exclude": [],
      "include": [
        {
          "name": "production",
          "source": "custom",
          "property_values": ["true"]
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "rules": [
    {
      "type": "repository_visibility",
      "parameters": {
        "public": false,
        "internal": false,
        "private": true
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "repository_name",
      "parameters": {
        "negate": false,
        "pattern": ".*(test|demo).*"
      }
    }
  ]
}'

[stevehipwell]

@patrick-knight I don't see docs matching the pattern you've shown, the docs you've linked to are repository rulesets.