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Setting up and managing your personal account on GitHub

You can manage settings for your personal account on GitHub, including email preferences, collaborator access for personal repositories, and organization memberships.

Managing user account settings

About your personal dashboard
Changing your GitHub username
Converting a user into an organization
Deleting your personal account
Permission levels for a personal account repository
Permission levels for a project board owned by a personal account
Managing the default branch name for your repositories
Managing access to your personal account's project boards
Integrating Jira with your personal projects

Managing email preferences

Adding an email address to your GitHub account
Changing your primary email address
Setting a backup email address
Setting your commit email address
Remembering your GitHub username or email

Managing access to your personal repositories

Inviting collaborators to a personal repository
Removing a collaborator from a personal repository
Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository

Managing your membership in organizations

About organization membership
Accessing an organization
Viewing people's roles in an organization
Publicizing or hiding organization membership
Removing yourself from an organization