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Why we picked it A contract clause is your legal safeguard, but the practical one is making sure the repo lives under an account you control from day one. This is GitHub's own guide to creating an organization, a shared account that owns the repositories while your freelancer joins as a member with access you can revoke. Do this before the first commit and you never have to chase code that sits in a contractor's personal account.
About organizations
From GitHub Docs by GitHub ~10 min read
- An organization is a shared account that owns the repositories, separate from any individual's personal account, so the code belongs to the org and not to your freelancer.
- You add the freelancer as a member with a specific role and can remove that access the moment the engagement ends.
- Organizations are free to start on GitHub, so there is no reason to let a contractor host your codebase under their own login.