Organizations and teams documentation

You can use organizations to collaborate with a large number of people across many projects at once, while managing access to your data and customizing settings.

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Types of GitHub accounts
Accounts on GitHub Enterprise Cloud allow you to organize and control access to code.
Repository roles for an organization
You can customize access to each repository in your organization by assigning granular roles, giving people access to the features and tasks they need.
About teams
Teams are groups of organization members that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.

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Collaborating with groups in organizations

Managing membership in your organization

Managing people's access to your organization with roles

Managing user access to your organization's repositories

Organizing members into teams

Managing access to your organization’s projects (classic)

Managing programmatic access to your organization

Managing OAuth access to your organization's data

Managing organization settings

Keeping your organization secure

Managing SAML single sign-on for your organization

Granting access to your organization with SAML single sign-on

Managing Git access to your organization's repositories

Migrating to improved organization permissions