Personalizing your profile

Changing your profile picture

Your profile picture helps identify you across GitHub Enterprise in pull requests, comments, contributions pages, and graphs.

When you sign up for an account, GitHub Enterprise provides you with a randomly generated "identicon". Your identicon generates from a hash of your user ID, so there's no way to control its color or pattern. You can replace your identicon with an image that represents you.

Setting a profile picture

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
   
2. Under Profile Picture, click Edit.
   
3. Click Upload a photo....
   
4. Crop your picture. When you're done, click Set new profile picture.
   

Resetting your profile picture to the identicon

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
   
2. Under Profile Picture, click Edit.
   
3. To revert to your identicon, click Remove photo. If your email address is associated with a Gravatar, you cannot revert to your identicon. Click Revert to Gravatar instead.
   

Changing your profile name

You can change the name that is displayed on your profile.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
   
2. Under "Name", type the name you want to be displayed on your profile.
   

Adding a bio to your profile

Add a bio to your profile to share information about yourself with other GitHub Enterprise users. With the help of @mentions and emoji, you can include information about where you currently or have previously worked, what type of work you do, or even what kind of coffee you drink.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.

   

2. Under Bio, add the content that you want displayed on your profile. The bio field is limited to 160 characters.

   

   Tip: When you @mention an organization, only those that you're a member of will autocomplete. You can still @mention organizations that you're not a member of, like a previous employer, but the organization name won't autocomplete for you.

3. Click Update profile.

   

Setting a status

You can set a status to display information about your current availability on GitHub Enterprise. Your status will show:

• on your GitHub Enterprise profile page.
• when people hover over your username or avatar on GitHub Enterprise.
• on a team page for a team where you're a team member. For more information, see "About teams."
• on the organization dashboard in an organization where you're a member. For more information, see "About your organization dashboard."

When you set your status, you can also let people know that you have limited availability on GitHub Enterprise.

If you select the "Busy" option, when people @mention your username, assign you an issue or pull request, or request a pull request review from you, a note next to your username will show that you're busy.

1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise, click your profile photo, then click Set your status or, if you already have a status set, click your current status.
   
2. To add custom text to your status, click in the text field and type a status message.
   
3. Optionally, to set an emoji status, click the smiley icon and select an emoji from the list.
   
4. Optionally, if you'd like to share that you have limited availability, select "Busy."
   
5. Use the Clear status drop-down menu, and select when you want your status to expire. If you don't select a status expiration, you will keep your status until you clear or edit your status.
   
6. Use the drop-down menu and click the organization you want your status visible to. If you don't select an organization, your status will be public.
   
7. Click Set status.
   

Further reading

• "About your profile"