Workspace and github

Hi Peter_23​,

The message you are seeing is expected when a Fabric workspace is already connected to GitHub but you personally have not authenticated to that Git repository yet.

Microsoft documents that Git authentication in a shared Fabric workspace is per user.

So even though another administrator may already have connected the workspace to the GitHub repository and branch, Fabric does not reuse that person’s GitHub credentials for you.

You do not need to be the owner of the GitHub repository.

You only need a GitHub account that has the required permission to that repository/branch.

Microsoft describes this behaviour in the Fabric Git integration process, including the “Sign in to Git account” message for users joining an already-connected workspace.

The permission you need depends on what you want to do:

• View Git status / update the workspace from Git → repository read access
• Commit Fabric changes back to GitHub → read + write access
• Create or switch to a new branch → additional write/branch permissions

Your Fabric Workspace Admin role and your GitHub repository permissions are separate.

So being Workspace Admin gives you the necessary Fabric-side permissions, but it does not automatically grant access to the GitHub repository.

For GitHub, you would normally go to:

Workspace settings → Git integration → GitHub

and add/authenticate your own GitHub account.

Microsoft’s Git setup guidance currently recommends using a fine-grained GitHub personal access token. Contents: Read is sufficient for read/update scenarios, while Contents: Read and write is required if you need to commit changes.

So if the repository belongs to somebody else or to an organization, ask the repository administrator to grant your GitHub account the appropriate access. You do not need repository ownership.

In short:

• workspace-to-repository connection = shared workspace configuration
• GitHub authentication = per individual user
• repository ownership = not required
• repository permissions = depend on the Git action you want to perform
  
  

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