The Gatsby Cloud GitHub application facilitates communication between Gatsby Cloud and GitHub. The app powers login authentication, git commit-based build triggers, and Starter template site creation.
Starter Templates
The Create a Site from a Template flow allows you to create a new site based on select starter templates. When using this flow, Gatsby Cloud will ask you to grant "All repositories" access. This is necessary because Github doesn't offer a way to scope access to a specific repository that hasn't already been created.
If you would prefer to not grant access to all repositories, then you can follow these steps to use a starter template:
- Clone the template you wish to use and manually push it to your Github repository.
- Add that repository to the list of repositories that the Gatsby Cloud application on Github has access to. See Permission Scope section for details.
- Add the site to Gatsby Cloud using the Create a Site from a Repository guide.
Permission Scope
You can go to https://github.com/settings/installations and configure the Gatsby Cloud application. Under Repository Access, choose All repositories or Only select repositories.
