fossa project edit

Update FOSSA project settings such as title, URL, and default branch from the CLI.

4 min readUpdated Jul 10, 2026

Full-access API token required

This command calls FOSSA endpoints that are not on the push-only allowlist, so a push-only token is rejected. Learn about token access levels.

fossa project edit

fossa project edit allows you to edit a FOSSA project's settings and configuration.

Options

ArgumentRequiredDescription
--config / -cNoThe to your path to your .fossa.yml.
--project-locatorYesThe project Locator defines a unique ID that the FOSSA API will use to reference this project within FOSSA. The project locator can be found in the UI on the project Settings page listed as the "Project Locator" underneath the "Project Title" setting.
--project-idYesThe project ID defines an ID that is used to reference a project within your FOSSA organization. The project ID is a specific portion of the project locator and can be found in the UI on the project Settings page listed as the "Project Locator" underneath the "Project Title" setting. For example, if the "Project Locator" value of custom+1/foo is provided in the FOSSA UI, use foo. Project ID defaults to the .git/config file or project's remote "origin" URL (Git), "Repository Root" obtained using 'svn info' (SVN), or the name of the project's directory (No VCS), if project ID wasn't explicityly set during project creation.
--title / -tNoThe title of the FOSSA project.
--project-urlNoThe url of the project's repository.
--jira-project-key / -jNoThe JIRA project key to associate to the FOSSA project.
--link / -LNoA link to attach to the FOSSA project.
--team / TNoThe name of the team that will be associated with the FOSSA project. Specify multiple options by providing this argument multiple times.
--project-labelNoThe labels associated with the FOSSA project. Assign up to 5 labels for a project. Specify multiple options by providing this argument multiple times.

Note

NOTE: The arguments listed as Required need to be provided through CLI options OR through your .fossa.yml configuration.

Note

NOTE: Either project ID OR project locator needs to be set. Project ID takes precedence over project locator. For more details on the differences between project ID and project locator refer to documentation.

.fossa.yml Configuration

All of the previously mentioned CLI options can be provided through a .fossa.yml. Refer to fossa configuration to set up your .fossa.yml.

Note

NOTE: CLI options take precedence over the configurations in .fossa.yml.

fossa project edit usage and guidance

Updating a project's labels

When updating project labels through fossa project edit, the transaction is all or nothing. This means that the project labels specified through this command will overwrite the existing labels that are associated with the project. Be sure to include all the labels that you want to be associated with the project, even if some labels are already currently set.

Updating the teams associated with a project

Currently, fossa project edit only supports adding a project to the teams that are specified through the command. There will be support to remove a project from the provided teams in the future.

Providing teams for fossa project edit takes the following precdence:

  1. CLI options - Adds the project to teams (1 or many)
  2. project.teams in .fossa.yml - Adds the project to teams (1 or many)
  3. project.team in .fossa.yml - Adds the project to a team

There is support for project.team due to backwards compatibility as project.teams is a newly added field in .fossa.yml.

Example

Project locator example

Given a project with project locator: custom+1/example, the following command:

  • Sets the project's title to example-title
  • Set the the project's url to github.com/fossas/fossa-cli
  • Sets the project's JIRA key to example-jira-key
  • Attaches link: fossa.com to the project
  • Adds the project to teams: example-team-1, example-team-2
  • Attaches policy: example-policy to the project
  • Attaches labels: example-label-1 , example-label-2 to the project
Shell
fossa project edit --project-locator custom+1/example --title example-title --project-url github.com/fossas/fossa-cli --jira-project-key example-jira-key --link fossa.com --team example-team --team example-team-2 --policy example-policy --project-label example-label-1 --project-label example-label-2 

Similarly, you can you achieve the same result by running the following command with the given .fossa.yml configuration:

Shell
fossa project edit --config /path/to/config
YAML
project:  locator: custom+1/example  name: example-title  teams:     - example-team-1    - example-team-2  policy: example-policy  link: fossa.com  url: github.com/fossas/fossa-cli  jiraProjectKey: example-jira-key  labels:    - example-label-1    - example-label-2

Project ID example

Achieve the same result as defined above (for projects created through the CLI) using project ID:

Shell
fossa project edit --project-id example --title example-title --project-url github.com/fossas/fossa-cli --jira-project-key example-jira-key --link fossa.com --team example-team --team example-team-2 --policy example-policy --project-label example-label-1 --project-label example-label-2 

Similarly, you can you achieve the same result by running the following command with the given .fossa.yml configuration:

Shell
fossa project edit --config /path/to/config
YAML
project:  id: example  name: example-title  teams:     - example-team-1    - example-team-2  policy: example-policy  link: fossa.com  url: github.com/fossas/fossa-cli  jiraProjectKey: example-jira-key  labels:    - example-label-1    - example-label-2
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