repo.update replaces repo.visibility and applies a repository's settings whole — a settings form submits every field it manages, so partial-update semantics would only add a way for the two to disagree about what absent means. The CLI reads current settings before writing, so 'repo private' no longer blanks the description.

A settings page at /r/{repo}/settings, admin-gated, and the description now appears on the repository itself rather than only in the listing: a reader arriving from a link otherwise sees nav and a file tree and no statement of what the project is. check-in: a41b410958 user: dmestas tags: trunk