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How do you take off a GitHub project?

The organization I work with has a GitHub project that none of the parties have used, and we are finishing it.

I see there is a big delete button, but I am wondering if there is a way to freeze the project so it can no longer be clicked and write "written off" to it in some way that would be generally accepted by other programmers.

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First of all, just add an explanatory note at the beginning of the README.md file in the repo (and if that file doesn't already exist, add it). Say something like "This project has reached the end of its life and now it is simply preserved here for posterity."



The unacceptable flavor of GitHub doesn't let you disable pushing, unfortunately.

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In addition to the README, you can ensure that the number of people who can return to the project is minimal (ideally one, owner and 0 contributors).



This way no one can go back to the repo and any new fork will include a README declaring eol.

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