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[rs232]

I have been contributing to a project for year, literally years. All of a sudden about 3 months ago, I can click the Edit button on the target repo. I was always able to do so and as part of my modification create a PR online directly.

I have been ion talks with the repo owner and we tried everything we could see in the settings, still I can't edit files not create a PR from a fork. I'm defined with write access in the repo and other users that are not even defined can edit the file and send PR. So we are all puzzled on what the root cause is here.

Is there a list of troubleshooting steps I can go through to try to fix this?

Thanks

[Syahrul]

G'day, @rs232 

Welcome to the community!

That's an interesting issue. I can see you only have admin access to a forked repository. Is this the repository that you were having an issue editing? 

If yes, can you navigate to the repository > Repository settings > Repository permissions and grab a screenshot so I can see the repository permission? This will help me identify if you have the correct permission to the repository or not.

Regards,
Syahrul

[rs232]

The repo I'm contributing to (and the Edit button on individual files directly on the target repo always worked (until 2/3 months ago) is this one:

https://bitbucket.org/pedro311/freshtomato-arm/src/arm-master

If you look in the commits, there were a number of PR I personally submitted using this very method:

- browse directly the target repo

- find the file and click edit

- save the modified file and create a PR as part of it.

The OP here is to indicate that for no apparent reason (the repo owner also investigated this and confirmed he absolutely changed nothing in the permissions) the Edit button is now greyed out.

P..S. I did try to fork and make the modification locally on my repo but:

- I deleted my historical fork of the main repo to try to have a fresh approach to this issue and go by exclusion

- I can't create a PR due to permission problems

- even if it would work... the Edit approach is priceless for little changes where e.g. we just correct the English

- It used to work it doesn't any more

- this, I'm reading on our support forum, is experienced by some other users but not all of them. When experienced, the issue is identical: the Edit button is greyed out.

Thanks